Why the Antichrist Matters in Politics
In Rush to Assist Solyndra, U.S. Missed Warning Signs
“It’s here that companies like Solyndra are leading the way toward a brighter and more prosperous future,” the president [Obama] declared in May 2010 to the assembled workers and executives. The start-up business had received a $535 million federal loan guarantee, offered in part to reassert American dominance in solar technology while generating thousands of jobs.
But behind the pomp and pageantry, Solyndra was rotting inside, hemorrhaging cash so quickly that within weeks of Mr. Obama’s visit, the company canceled plans to offer shares to the public. Barely a year later, Solyndra has become one of the administration’s most costly fumbles after the company declared bankruptcy, laid off 1,100 workers and was raided by F.B.I. agents seeking evidence of possible fraud.
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September 23, 2011 at 10:49 am
theroachman
An Amerikan company based on fraud? Again. How many other companies are like this out there. Besides the major banks, military companies, car makers and such.
September 23, 2011 at 11:41 am
Bif
The guv-mint should have aligned with VCs who would also have skin in the game and manage the risks. It may have failed anyway but at least not so stupidly. Obama administration has provided ammo to his political opponents on a silver platter.
Obama seems to be leading us backwards on renewables so I hope he at least plans to approve Keystone Pipeline. Or maybe the plan is we will have no energy at all.
September 24, 2011 at 5:17 am
dave
September 24, 2011 at 11:35 am
GB
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/30/daryl-hannah-arrested-keystone-protest_n_942072.html
Daryl Hannah still looks hot to me. What’s not to like? Go Daryl!!
September 24, 2011 at 8:02 pm
Dr. Doom
Greetings from the far east. The rumor i heard is the gas in the keytone pipeline will be marketed globally after it is refined in the gulf. How then does this help the USA other than further enrich a few americans in the oil and gas (and pipeline) business? The Alaska oil pipeline oil was sold on the open market, as well, mainly to the Japanese. Oil, gas and LNG are fungible.
If Obama had any free will (but how could he after being bought and paid for by monied interests?) he’d insist on husbanding all north american energy for the future. Of couse, if all countries did the same, there would be some big losers (think europe and japan, again) and world war as a likely outcome. See WWI, followed by part two, WWII.
September 24, 2011 at 8:43 pm
Bif
“The rumor i heard is the gas in the keytone pipeline will be marketed globally after it is refined in the gulf.”
Yes that is the rumor from Hollywood energy insiders.
September 25, 2011 at 6:54 am
dave
i thought that you didn’t care for blondes.
celebrities getting “arrested”, that’s a joke.
if you want to be enriched also, just buy stock in some pipeline company. i guess.
September 25, 2011 at 6:56 am
dave
September 25, 2011 at 7:08 am
dave
http://www.anorak.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/daryl-hannah.jpg
September 25, 2011 at 7:01 pm
Nudge
Dave, go rent Dancing at the Blue Iguana – can’t believe she did that role in her 40s (wow).
September 25, 2011 at 11:17 pm
theroachman
September 26, 2011 at 6:02 pm
dave
yeah, she has a cute little white girl ass; bet it’s tasty too.
September 26, 2011 at 6:54 pm
GB
munch, slurp.
September 26, 2011 at 7:00 pm
dave
http://imgur.com/6mXiN
September 27, 2011 at 7:32 am
GB
Could Jhoon Rhee or some other semi-fictitious character monitor dave at the computer?
September 27, 2011 at 8:18 am
GB
http://www.cmgww.com/music/andrews/
now this is more like it.
September 27, 2011 at 9:15 am
GB
http://www.funtoosh.com/jokes/men/378
September 28, 2011 at 1:20 am
EEofDC
OMG, Roach! Harmonic convergence… was just posing a question to myself: “What would DB do?” LOLOL
September 28, 2011 at 1:39 am
EEofDC
Bitch! You don’t have a future.
September 28, 2011 at 2:46 am
doomphd
GB, does the logic follow that a date with any one of the Andrews sisters would automatically result in a three-way?
Greetings from Port Royal.
September 28, 2011 at 9:09 am
uncle remus
WTF are you doing in Jamaica mon?
September 28, 2011 at 10:02 am
doomphd
Non, je suis en Paris, en un hotel cotes du Port Royal. Mon francais est trés mal. Pardon, s’il vous plait.
September 28, 2011 at 2:00 pm
theroachman
I dont speak anti-amerikant. But mom does, two years for NATO back in the beginning. Worked as the french interperter for the Marshall plan man himself.
September 28, 2011 at 4:30 pm
dave
yeah, i always forget. did time begin with the end of ww2 or at the beginning of the last great depression. the big bang is bullshit.
September 28, 2011 at 7:32 pm
Bif
Doom you’re in my sometimes neighborhood. Too bad I’m not there right now. Walk down Rue St-Monge to the Cafe Victor. Its on the right before you get to St Nicholas church. Nice people and good coffee ($5 a cup!). even better, walk a little further down to Blvd St Germain and go into Cafe du Metro. More lively, plus pretty girls. A very good French restaurant in that neighborhood is Louis Vins on Rue de la Montagne Ste-Geneveive. Pricey but excellent. Also, you may know this but you are just a couple blocks from Hemingway’s apartment. I forget which street, but you are super close.
September 28, 2011 at 7:35 pm
Bif
OK I looked it up. Hemingway apartment was 74 Rue du Cardinal Lemoine. OK go!
September 29, 2011 at 1:23 am
Dr. Doom
Merci Bif, I will check out his place and maybe leave him a note or something.
One of the best ways to see the effects of dollar inflation is to visit Europe, or at least an expensive place like Paris. Ouch!
September 29, 2011 at 5:13 am
Nudge
“I will check out his place and maybe leave him a note ..” Doom, have you seen the movie “Primer”?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390384/
September 30, 2011 at 8:40 am
dave
http://i.imgur.com/kiVZf.jpg
September 30, 2011 at 4:52 pm
dave
it’s about time.
http://jezebel.com/5836636/once-you-see-the-changed-man-bikini-swimsuit-you-cannot-unsee-the-changed-man-bikini-swimsuit-nsfw
September 30, 2011 at 11:35 pm
uncle remus
http://i.imgur.com/kiVZf.jpg
WTF – Bubba Arcosanti?
October 1, 2011 at 6:07 am
dave
10/1/11
October 1, 2011 at 6:09 am
dave
lysakology, kinda like arcology, but better.
October 2, 2011 at 5:36 am
Nudge
Trailer park condo? Something about it looks photoshopped – no humans in the picture maybe?
But yes, it’s real (sort of) .. it’s an outdoor stage used by the Dutch performance group Theater het Amsterdam Bos.
http://www.ebcak.com/archives/446
October 2, 2011 at 7:04 am
dave
October 2, 2011 at 9:37 am
dave
great metaphor
http://i.imgur.com/DA0uA.jpg
October 2, 2011 at 10:47 am
uncle remus
Nice.
October 2, 2011 at 2:55 pm
GB
Awesome year for fungi in the northeast with all the rain. Lyophyllum decastes, cinnabar red chanterelles, and shitake coming in.
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/lyophyllum_decastes.html
Actually, not too sure about ID on the L. decastes, but no one dead yet.
October 2, 2011 at 4:07 pm
Dr. Doom
yes, that’s the hotel where the fans will be staying tonight after the big game, maybe.
calling this in from the airport hilton at chicago o’hare. an unscheduled stopover due to delays in customs. i needed a break, anyway.