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"Every day that you build this expanded facility," President Obama told employees of Solyndra at the company's solar panel plant in Fremont, Calif., last May, "you're demonstrating that the promise of clean energy isn't just an article of faith. Not anymore. ... It's happening right now. The future is here."

Well, it was here. Yesterday, Solyndra announced it was filing for bankruptcy, despite Obama's bold statement 15 months earlier that the company would create 4,000 new jobs -- 3,000 in construction and 1,000 in manufacturing. In September 2009, Solyndra had received the very first federal loan guarantee -- $535 million -- from a Department of Energy program partially funded by Obama's stimulus package. But questions quickly surfaced. A Pricewaterhouse Coopers audit of the firm, months after the award was announced, found it to be a black hole for cash. Solyndra's cumulative $558 million in "recurring losses from operations," PwC wrote, and "negative cash flows since inception ... raise substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern."

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The New Tone

Got this one from Jeff. It is at Monster Hunter Nation. Gotta pay attention don't we?
Now can we question everything they say? Damn Right!
Linkage: http://larrycorreia.wordpress.com/2011/08/05/the-new-tone/



Need I say more? Nope, didn't think so.

Friday Follies for July 8, 2011

From Crucis' Court:
Got some doozy's here folks.
Starting with the jobs thingy we seem to get hammered with from the administration of the corrupt and the state run media.......
Paragraph one and two to wet your whistle!

The June 2011 jobs report was released this morning and the report is shocking.  There were only 18,000 new jobs created last month---for the entire country!  That's all forty-eight contiguous states, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and a scattering of other US possession around the world.

The Jobless rate, which includes only around half of those unemployed, went up to 9.2%.  Not only that, but they've revised the May numbers downward.  The new jobs created for May, 2011 was reduced by 44,000.


The rest of the follies are at the link. Go. Read. Make up your own mind.
http://crucis-court.blogspot.com/2011/07/friday-follies-for-july-8-2011.html

Rules is Rules!

From my good buddy, Shane. Shane is the Roadmaster on the BNSF Devils Lake Subdivision in North Dakota. We dumped a lot of rock in June of 2007 and a few other times before.

Oops!
Good news:
It was a normal day in Sharon Springs, Kansas, when a Union Pacific crew boarded a loaded coal train for the long trek to Salina.

Bad news:
Just a few miles into the trip a wheel bearing became overheated and melted, letting a metal support drop down and grind on the rail, creating white hot molten metal droppings spewing down to the rail.

Good news:
A very alert crew noticed smoke about halfway back in the train

and immediately stopped the train in compliance with the rules

Bad news:
The train stopped with the hot wheel over a wooden bridge with creosote ties and trusses.

The crew tried to explain this to Union Pacific higher-ups but

were instructed not to move the train!

They were informed that Rules prohibited moving the train

when a part was found to be defective!

'REMEMBER, RULES IS RULES!'

(Don't ever let common sense get in the way of a good Disaster! )

20 Really Bad Ideas That Are Almost Too Stupid To Believe

This one is from The American Dream.
The narrative prep is as follows......
The twenty Really Bad Ideas are at the link at the bottom........

What in the world is happening to America?  It seems like all we get out of politicians at the federal, state and local levels is a steady stream of really bad ideas.  Even when our government officials appear to have the best of intentions things still turn out badly.  "What were they thinking" is a phrase that is being uttered by millions of Americans on a daily basis.  Sadly, instead of focusing on real problems and real solutions, the mainstream media loves to focus on the latest scandal.  Last month everyone wanted to talk about Anthony Weiner.  This month everyone wants to talk about Casey Anthony.  Next month it will be somebody else.  There is a never ending stream of scandals for the mainstream media to latch on to, but what is America going to look like if we do not start addressing our real problems?  The United States has become a cesspool of corruption, greed, debt and depravity.  Everywhere you look there are signs of decline, and yet all our leaders come up with are more really bad ideas.  Time is running out on this nation, and with each passing day there seems to be fewer reasons to be optimistic about the future.

Most Americans that are actively engaged in politics believe that either the Democrats or the Republicans are the answer.  But sadly, that is just not the case.  When the Republicans have been in power they have been a total mess.  When the Democrats have been in power they have been a complete train wreck.  Both political parties have lied to us and have deceived us over and over.  The mainstream media would have us believe that George W. Bush and Barack Obama are from "opposite ends of the political spectrum", but when you closely examine the policies that they have implemented they are almost identical.

No matter who we vote into office we always seem to get the same results.

It is almost as if this nation is under some sort of a curse.

Sadly, our leaders only seem to get stupider and stupider.

The following are 20 really bad ideas that are almost too stupid to believe....

http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/20-really-bad-ideas-that-are-almost-too-stupid-to-believe

I leave the final judgement up to the reader.........I didn't write this one but wish I had, OK?