Stop Censoring the News

There’s no question that the liberal media did everything they could to get Barack Obama reelected last year. We should all be disturbed by this fact.

But particularly disturbing are the media’s attempts to censor news they thought might embarrass Obama or slow down the Left’s radical agenda.

The Media Research Center has documented numerous cases of the media suppressing stories like “Fast and Furious,” Solyndra, Benghazi, and others — stories that would have been major news if there had been a conservative in the White House.

It’s time the American people stand against this lack of integrity and blatant abuse of power by the national media.

Therefore I sign the following petition demanding the so-called “news” media stop censoring news which exposes the failed liberal agenda.

Go here …

Getting out of the Kitchen: Energy Secretary Chu Steps Down, Blasts Climate-Change Skeptics

Hey choo Chu man caused climate change, it’s a big fat government lie. Those of us that actually know something about science can prove it is.

And the emails from East Anglia climate unit, show it is … they know it too.

The Ticket – Yahoo! News

Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist frequently the target of Republican criticism, announced Friday that he was stepping down in the latest shake-up of President Barack Obama’s Cabinet. Chu, who disclosed his decision in a letter to Energy Department staff, frequently clashed with GOP lawmakers over gas prices as well as government backing for green-energy companies like the failed firm Solyndra.

In his letter, Chu took aim directly at his critics, saying the clean-energy efforts were a success—and blasted climate-change skeptics as trapped in “the Stone Age.”
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He also scolded climate-change skeptics and urged a shift from fossil-fuels to other sources of energy.

“The overwhelming scientific consensus is that human activity has had a significant and likely dominant role in climate change,” Chu warned in his letter. “There is also increasingly compelling evidence that the weather changes we have witnessed during this thirty year time period are due to climate change.”

And who gives a tinkers damn what a consensus of fools has to say?

Taxpayers To Recover $0 On Solyndra

It will come as no surprise to some but the bankruptcy court hearing for Solyndra just threw up all over any hopes that our taxpayer-funded loans to this solar sinkhole will be recovered:

• *SOLYNDRA HAS ABOUT $71 MILLION IN NET DISTRIBUTABLE ASSETS
• *SOLYNDRA LENDERS AHEAD OF GOVERNMENT OWED ABOUT $77 MILLION

So it looks like a $0 recovery for us – US Government: Picking Losers One Sector At A Time.

Abound To Fail

Seven months after calling themselves the “anti-Solyndra,” the Colorado-based solar panel manufacturer Abound Solar announced it was filing for chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation, arguing that cheap Chinese solar panels flooding the market caused their demise.

“With over $30 billion in reported government subsidies, Chinese panel makers were able to sell below cost and put Abound out of business before we were big enough to pose a real competitive threat to China’s rapidly growing market share,” according to the prepared congressional testimony by Craig Witsoe, former CEO of Abound.

Abound Solar was given a $400 million loan guarantee by the Energy Department, and drew on about $70 million dollars of the guarantee before DOE cut them off in September 2011 — the same month the Solyndra scandal began.

After the massive failure of the solar panel manufacturer Solyndra, Energy Department loan guarantees came under increased media and congressional scrutiny. Other loan recipients felt the public pressure as well.

Internal documentation and testimony from sources within Abound show that the company was selling a faulty, underperforming product, and may have mislead lenders at one point in order to keep itself afloat.

“Our solar modules worked as long as you didn’t put them in the sun,” an internal source told The Daily Caller News Foundation.

The company knew its panels were faulty prior to obtaining taxpayer dollars, according to sources, but kept pushing product out the door in order to meet Department of Energy goals required for their $400 million loan guarantee.

“The DOE hurt us more than anything,” another source told The DC News Foundation, speaking of DOE production and revenue metrics.

The faulty solar panels would routinely burn up and virtually all of the panels Abound manufactured underperformed, meaning they did not put out the promised amount of power. Sources say that Abound panels would only put out between 80 and 85 percent of the promised wattage.

These problems led to tens of thousands of panels having to be replaced, especially towards the end of the company’s life.

Burning up and underperforming

In October of 2010, the company discovered that their panels were catching fire. One source said that this problem was brought to the company’s attention during a meeting in October 2010 with some company executives present and the suggestion was made to shut down the factory in order to address the problem.

“Our lead quality engineer… blew the whistle in a manager’s monthly review meeting, and he was basically told to shut up and sit down,” said another source.

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Ahead of election, House Republicans set for aggressive push against Obama

The House Judiciary Committee plans to storm back into Washington, D.C. as Congress comes out of its summer recess with a Wednesday morning hearing examining President Barack Obama’s “abuse of power.”

It’s the latest attempt by House Republicans to take an aggressive stance against the Obama administration in the final weeks ahead of the election.

The House Ways and Means Committee is drilling into how the Treasury Department terminated the pensions of 20,000 non-union Delphi salaried retirees during the 2009 auto bailout. House oversight committee chairman Rep. Darrell Issa remains intent as ever on his quest for justice in the Operation Fast and Furious scandal. And, House Energy and Commerce committee Republicans are planning on continuing to draw attention to the failures of Obama’s green energy programs – with emphasis on Solyndra — as they’re moving forward with new “No More Solyndras” legislation.

According to Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee, who is scheduled to visit the House side and testify before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday, the hearing has a packed agenda aimed at confronting the Obama administration over its “unconstitutional” uses of power.

Among other things, Lee’s office said in a release forwarding information that was provided by the House Judiciary Committee, the hearing will focus in part on the president’s “prosecutorial discretion” — or administrative DREAM Act — immigration policies
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Thats Some Pig

Did we bring enough lipstick?

OK, what are they supposed to be???

Being President shows people what you really are, so said Michelle

___________________________________Bush               Obama

Unemployment   Rate                                   7.8%                8.35

Median Income                                              54,983            50,964

Gas Price Per Gallon                                     $1.84                  $3.82

National Debt                                              $10.6 T              $16 T

To date 16 so-called green companies like Solyndra, have gone belly up after receiving free “Obama Money;”  costing taxpayers billions of dollars.

Obama Energy Investment, $0.20 Return On The Dollar

Surprised that some company would pay that much for a factory that was designed to produce something that much different from original intent. So that’s a good deal.

$0.20 cents of the dollar, for Obama energy development investment. Good deal for taxpayers, don’t you think? I wonder what the whole regime will bring? I doubt that would be that for whole regime.

Taxpayers are about to take it on the chin again when it comes to solar-panel firm Solyndra, as the now-defunct company looks to sell off its glimmering headquarters for a fraction of the original price.

Bankruptcy court documents filed earlier this week show that Seagate Technology — which makes hard drives and other storage products — is offering to buy the Fremont, Calif., building for $90.3 million. The original building cost was cited in earlier documents as roughly $300 million.

The offer, though not final, became an instant political football as the Romney campaign used it to resurrect accusations that the Obama administration gambled, and lost, with taxpayer dollars. The government gave a $528 million loan to Solyndra.

“Solyndra is the ultimate symbol of President Obama’s failed attempts to pick winners and losers in the free market,” Romney spokeswoman Andrea Saul said. “The Obama administration’s decision to put its friends and donors ahead of taxpayers was wrong, and even the sale of Solyndra’s palatial headquarters won’t make things right.”

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Hey it’s a short sale, what did you want.

How Much Electricity Do Solar And Wind Make On A Global Scale? Answer: “Not much”

‘Hydroelectricity produces 16% of the total. But all the vanity renewables bundled together make about 3.5% of total. Wind power is a major global industry but it’s only making 1.4% of total electricity. And solar is so pathetically low that it needs to be bundled with ‘tidal & wave’ power to even rate 0.1% (after rounding up). If world’s solar powered units all broke tonight, it would not dent global electricity production a jot. No one connected to a grid would notice’.

But all the vanity ‘renewables’ worldwide bundled together make about 3.5% of the total.

Didn’t anybody learn physics … Energy is not renewable.

If you were the electricity grid, you would hardly notice the electricity generated by this non-sense waste of money.

When you subtract the cost of repair of various power generation installations, it adds up to nothing useful. Might I suggest a calculator before we spend the money. How about we do some actual engineering, less the government subsidies. It might surprise you how much less it costs to use a calculator, before building manufacturing plans which will stand empty, as now is Solyndra’s plant.

What a waste, chase your tail some more. Unless you want to turn into Kenya …

Taxpayers to Recover a Mere $24 Million From Solyndra; Lamestream Networks Ignore

The three networks have, thus far, ignored the revelation that American taxpayers will only recover a mere $24 million of the $527 million lost on Solyndra, a new report by the Dow Jones newswire revealed last week. The evening newscasts and morning shows have skipped the announcement.

The Washington Examiner explained on Thursday, “In a little-noticed move, Solyndra LLC officially released it bankruptcy plan this week. The official word from it is that taxpayers will recover only $24 million of the about $527 million.” The only utterance of Solyndra last week came when Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus brought it up on Sunday’s This Week.

Not bad, better than nothing. Can you think of how we could have saved the whole $527 million?

Most people use the calculator before they invest, not our Bama.

Green Energy Failure to Launch

Doubling down on failure. Something only government can do, for something no one wants.

President Barack Obama told a Cincinnati audience on Monday that he does not make the same mistake more than once. Minutes later, he told the same crowd he would continue spending federal dollars on green energy.

The Obama administration has spent billions of taxpayer dollars on green energy companies, many of which either declared bankruptcy or created most of their jobs outside the United States. The most notable among these was Solyndra, which got a $535 million Energy Department loan in 2009, but declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2011 shortly before being raided by the FBI.

Speaking in the critical swing state of Ohio on Monday, Obama blamed tax cuts and other policies of the Bush administration for the country’s economic problems. He said Republicans are not proposing any different ideas for this campaign season.

OK, I get this one too. Obama’s green energy investments have all failed, with bankruptcy, so he has to try again. Private investors would say, I don’t think there is a market for green energy. Whatever that is. Can anyone define what is “green energy”??? Got it yet? Me Neither.