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White House rushed decision on Solyndra The Obama White House tried to rush federal reviewers for a decision on a nearly half-billion-dollar loan to the solar-panel manufacturer Solyndra so Vice President Biden could announce the approval at a September 2009 groundbreaking for the company’s factory, newly obtained e-mails show. The White House says [...] A little-known Republican in a heavily Democratic district in NYC has defeated a prominent Democratic inthe race for Anthony Weiner’s former seat. One voter said “I am a registered Democrat, I have always been a registered Democrat, I come from a family of Democrats — and I hate to say this, I voted Republican. I [...] Why did so many Democrats in California, including Dianne Feinstein, continue using Kinde Durkee as their campaign treasurer when she’d been so heavily fined by the California Fair Political Practices Committee? Over the last decade Durkee had racked up $185,860 in fines from the Fair Political Practices Commission in eight different cases, a sum that [...] Poisoned Well by trickstero on Red Bubble Well, one thing is for sure. Solyndra’s recent bankruptcy filing cemented the removal of the words “solar energy” from President Obama’s speech to Congress last night when he laid out his American Jobs Act. Solyndra executives backed out of testifying before Congress today claiming they were just [...] Knowaste is doing it now, reprocessing diapers and other absorbent hygiene products into sterile plastics and fibers which can then be used in a number of products, including roofing tiles. Via Inhabitat From those masters of snark at Zero Hedge Sgt Obama’s lonely unemployed record poverty club is back in session A Vermonter friend posted this video on Facebook. I commented: I’ve spent a lot of time in Vermont. Vermonters are hardy and resilient but dear God… Reminds me of the Northridge quake when I lived in L.A. It took a while, but L.A. did recover. Vermont will too. She replied (emphasis added): You are [...] A French bank says US banks have stopped lending to them. The chart shows spreads on credit default swaps (CDS) for Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece and Spain (the PIIGS.) CDS are psuedo insurance that big players buy and sell on the health of a company or in this case, on whether a country will [...] The ATF and/or the US Attorney’s office in Phoenix allowed at least 1,400 guns to be smuggled from the US to drug cartels in Mexico, ostensibly so they could track the guns up the food chain and then make big arrests. Instead, and tragically, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was murdered. One of the [...] |  | ||||
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