Solyndra: Perpetual Motion Machine Wrapped in a Ponzi Scheme

Now I know why the goofy name for this company.  Their one-trick pony is a cylindrical solar panel.   Solyndrical, plus a suitable Kumbayah web 2.0 ending, I get it.

The problem with these panels is the same problem with water injection to boost the expansion of an internal combustion engine.  Sounds dumb right?  Water kills fire.  Oh, but wait, if the heat of the fire is used to power the unbelievably explosive power of steam expansion, then you actually get MORE power from each ignition, right?  Amazing!  Oh, but… water kills fire.

Even if you can get the system to work consistently, the steam expansion would remove so much energy from the cylinder that a tremendous amount of fuel would be required just to keep the engine … Continue reading

The Ingrates of Wrath

Well, Obama’s army is at it again, both in the streets of Washington, and the editorial meetings of the Associated Press.  This time we find terrorists damaging critical infrastructure that our economy depends upon.  Why?  Because one group of union thugs is upset that their strike (or whatever, I don’t care) was upended by — wait for it — the hiring of different union workers.  Ooh, those filthy capitalist yankee running dogs! How dare those pigs hire people from a different union?

Hundreds of Longshoremen stormed the Port of Longview early Thursday, overpowered and held security guards, damaged railroad cars, and dumped grain that is the center of a labor dispute, said Longview Police Chief Jim Duscha.

Six guards were held hostage for a couple of hours after … Continue reading

Sympathy for the Devil

[Published on: Aug 27, 2011 @ 21:32]

Blaming Obama is a popular pastime around here. Around my keyboard, that is. Yes, he’s a Marxist, no he’s never accomplished anything, and maybe his anti-Americanism is manifest, but perhaps it’s merely latent. His economics are disastrous and unyielding, his foreign policy is disastrous and always yielding, and he either does not understand how to protect America or does not care to do so. His obsequious bowing and kowtowing will be remembered long after his “historic” status is forgotten.  Someday a black President who doesn’t hate blacks will be elected by Americans who don’t hate America. He is nothing.

[pullquote]America deserves Obama.[/pullquote]The real problem is America itself, and we fool ourselves by thinking that electing a majority here, taking the executive chair … Continue reading

Debt Deal: Arranged Defeat

[dc]I[/dc]t’s the grift that keeps on grifting.  They dodge responsibility and fund our destruction in the short term, while deferring even worse decisions to a “bipartisan” group.  I am proud to have opposed this arranged defeat, the debt ceiling compromise bill, here , here , here , here and here, among other posts and places.

Ann Barnhardt is quite focused on how bad this deal was:

I stand here in abject stupefaction.  The so-called “right” or “Tea Party” in this republic is being so thoroughly rolled and defeated that I am struggling to come … Continue reading

Tea Party the Real Enemy

[dc]O[/dc]h, it’s on.

“Let us all remember who the real enemy is. The real enemy is the Tea Party — the Tea Party holds the Congress hostage. They have one goal in mind, and that’s to make President Obama a one-term president,” Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) said at a Miami town hall with constituents.

Rep. Frederica Wilson blamed “racism” for the high black unemployment rate on MSNBC yesterday.

Yes, the Tea Party is the real enemy.  Not because you’re black, and not because you’re a Democrat.  Because you are a Marxist, race-baiting, hazard to the freedom of all Americans, black or white, Republican or Democrat.

Search the rubble left by every “austerity” program in the developed world, from Greece to London, and you’ll find burning cars and riot … Continue reading

Political Judo

[dc]W[/dc]hat if the president finds it agreeable to guarantee the safety of his programs by installing an apparently moderate Democrat?  If Obama steps aside, we Republicans fling ourselves at the wall.   Would he be able to transform his own personal unpopularity into yet another weapon for whacking the slow-footed and timid GOP?  We need to be prepared for the staged emergence of a moderate Democrat to deflate all our puffed-up rage at the Communist incumbent.

Think it couldn’t happen?  Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and President Obama have all demonstrated their willingness to sacrifice much for their progressive goals.  Obama has already spokenopenly, several times, of being a one-term president.  The way in which he does so is not familiar to … Continue reading

Bernanke: Japan 2.0

Japan’s economy has been stranded by the same moronic scheme announced by Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.  Japanese politics is an impenetrable hive-mind of graft and just-so stories, but the fundamentals of the economic problems are shockingly similar.  And I try not to sprinkle the internet’s favorite word about too much.

Japan, inc. was overvalued and when the walls came down, nobody got out.  Yet an unwillingness to allow real corrections has resulted in a state of suspended economic activity, where the official policy is zero interest, and everybody’s still waiting for the other shoe to drop.  Periodically you see headlines announcing that the worst is over, that they’ve turned a corner, that this at long last is the real bottom, except that nobody actually believes it.  The media, … Continue reading

Obama's Bus Trip to Hell

If he had it to do all over again, he wouldn’t.

Somehow the President of the United States has been reduced to commissioning a million-dollar bus to support a three-state misery tour of his own home turf.  Presumably this is to shore up sagging numbers in the wake of the Republican Iowa shenanigans sucking all the oxygen out of the midwest.

He should have stayed in Washington.  Jay Leno is roasting him, the Democrats despair for leadership, and even the reprehensible Wasserman-Schultz is hard put to defend this tawdry little man from his own lies, caught on tape.  And aired on, well, one major network, at least.

Fox News is gleefully showing clips of him being grilled by Tea Party people who ask him fair questions, and the … Continue reading

George Monbiot – How the Billionaires Broke the System

[Update: BREAKING: Monbiot may not actually be a Marxist.  But Cripes!  I’m not nearly so far off in my characterization of him as he is of the Tea Party, and that’s me, baby.  That’s me.]

Popular Commies at it again.  Or still.  Skip to the chase: it’s the Koch brothers who ruined America.

The US deficit reduction plan makes no sense – until you remember who’s behind the Tea Party movement.

By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 1st August 2011

There are two ways of cutting a deficit: raising taxes or reducing spending. Raising taxes means taking money from the rich. Cutting spending means taking money from the poor. Not in all cases of course: some taxation is regressive; some state spending takes money from ordinary citizens … Continue reading