After Obama & Co. dumped $14 billion tax payer dollars down that Detroit money pit.
But, hey. It’s all good. You three stooges don’t have to pay back the American taxpayers out of your own pocket.
Our raped wallet B*tt holes will heal up just fine.
So, you go right on ahead applying that zero business experience & pointy head academic theory till you completely kill our economy.
Really. We’re cool.
Officer barely escapes alive. The MSM is all over this story narrative.
Uh, never mind.
But archeologists know that we used to be the United States of Americans.
A great piece of chilling writing, right here.
Pres. Obama travels to London on Air Force One for the G20 Summit this Tuesday with an entourage of 500, an armour-plated limousine, a fleet of decoy helicopters, full kitchen staff, six personal physicians, and 200 secret service agents.
Pres. Obama's predecessor traveled heavy, too, with a decoy AF1 and a decoy motorcade of 20 armored vehicles. My guess is that Pres. Obama's security arrangements will be similar.
Not bad for guy who made the whole world love us again.
What won't be similar is the lefty soiled nappy outrage against this profusion of necessary precautions for a sitting president.
Also dissimilar will be the bucolic myrmidon silence that surely would have engendered raucous howls to 'impeach da chimp!' against the hated Boooshitler: Back room closed door meetings with many of the G20 heavy hitters.
"Indeed, despite all the heat and fury over this week's G20, the most important work might actually emerge from the meetings that Obama and his team have scheduled on the side, far away from the debate over the economic crisis. In effect, if the G20 were a party with a guest list, then Obama's series of mini-summits would be a VIP room; open only to a select few powerful players and conducted firmly behind closed doors."
UConn beats Mizzou, 82-75. The Missouri season in quick review.
Mich. St. beats KU, 67-62. The Kansas season in quick review.
"No team in college basketball traveled further than Mike Anderson’s Missouri Tigers."
For two evenings, Dr. Ravi Zacharias answered hard-hitting questions from a student-packed auditorium at University of Illinois. This is small excerpt.
More in this series of college campus discussions available here.
WABC radio reporter radio reporter George Weber was killed by the self-describe 'knife fetishist' after he paid the teen $60 for a "drug-fueled, rough sex romp." He was stabbed 50 times. Weber had answered a sex ad on Craig's List.
"He and Weber met online sometime last week and had arranged to meet," Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said. "There was going to be an exchange of money."
Katehis was charged as an adult with second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon at his arraignment Wednesday night - charges that could send the tattooed teen to jail for a long time. He was held without bail."
Christianity in China is booming. With 100 million believers, far more than the 74 million-member communist party, Jesus is a force to be reckoned with in the People’s Republic. We talk to the new faithful who love China – but love God more.
Can I get an "Amen?"
From the trying to increase it's 'fly over country' readership NY Times:
"Still, no state seems as hard hit by cattle rustling as Missouri.
“They’ve just been plagued,” said Larry Gray, head of law enforcement for the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association.
Mr. Gray, who said that cattle theft was often tied to drug activity, added that Missouri farmers might be more vulnerable to rustlers because many farmers there were “absentee producers” with smaller operations.
“Thieves like to prey on the smaller producers,” he said, because “it’s a lot easier for the thieves to get and load the cattle.”
Also, unlike many larger cattle-producing Western states, Missouri does not have a “brand law,” meaning that cattle producers are not required to register brands with the state.
Not having to register saves many of the state’s 65,000 ranchers from paying fees, but it also means that cattle often carry no identifying marks. Auction markets and stockyards are not required to verify ownership of unbranded cattle, and that, the authorities say, allows thieves to unload stolen livestock quickly.
“You could drive up to any sale barn, drop off your load of cattle, and if they pass the agricultural inspection and are sold, you’d get a check in the mail,” Sgt. Jason Clark, a Missouri Highway Patrol spokesman, said.
Since 2004, after a surge in cattle thefts following a spike in beef prices, many of the roughly 130 auction markets in Missouri have begun asking for identification and proof of ownership from anyone trying to sell unbranded cattle. But the program is voluntary, and the Missouri Cattlemen’s Association estimates that thieves have stolen more than $1.1 million in cattle and equipment in the past four years."
Oklahoma Full Auto Shoot and Trade Show.
Yup. You wanna watch.
Hey, it beats the heck out of sitting in the dark pining away for the Stone Age on 'Earth Day'.
Get a grip, people.
TY MF
"Is it really true somehow that political self-interest is nobler than economic self-interest?"
CC: Pres. Barak Obama & Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner
Milton Friedman was a champion of The Power of Choice through economic & personal liberty. Since his death in 2006 at the age of 94, the world is a much poorer place.
CC: all the gub'mint lovin' leftist congress critters.
States Consider Drug Tests for Welfare Recipients.
"Lawmakers in at least eight states want recipients of food stamps, unemployment benefits or welfare to submit to random drug testing.The effort comes as more Americans turn to these safety nets to ride out the recession. Poverty and civil liberties advocates fear the strategy could backfire, discouraging some people from seeking financial aid and making already desperate situations worse.
Those in favor of the drug tests say they are motivated out of a concern for their constituents' health and ability to put themselves on more solid financial footing once the economy rebounds. But proponents concede they also want to send a message: you don't get something for nothing.
"Nobody's being forced into these assistance programs," said Craig Blair, a Republican in the West Viginia Legislature who has created a Web site — notwithmytaxdollars.com — that bears a bobble-headed likeness of himself advocating this position. "If so many jobs require random drug tests these days, why not these benefits?"
"Yes, we can" seems to be a popular phrase with some of these gangs.
The summit is schedule for April 2nd in London, and the violent adolescent anarchists and slacker entitlement gangs are all set to raise h3ll in the street.
"(Reuters) - Police are gearing up to deal with protests in London, as leaders of the world's largest economies gather for a G20 summit in the British capital on April 2.""Join thousands of disgruntled, angry, pissed off people on the streets of the financial district," said a statement posted on the "Wombles" anarchist website.
* One anarchist Web site has warned of unspecified action at the summit itself."A day of f*#king up the summit and other adventures. Be warned. Be aware. Be ready!," it says.
"The anarchists are reportedly using Google Streetview and Twitter to organize riots, hang businessmen in effigy at the behest of a university professor known as “Mr. Mayhem,” call for guillotining bank execs, and — get this — target London firms that fail to turn off their lights to commemorate that moronic “Earth Hour” event I wrote about earlier this week. If shops don’t worship at the altar of environmentalism, they will be broken into:"
That ended Memphis' 27-game winning streak.
Update: I'm sorry. I just couldn't stomach the per usual, shrug review of Mizzou, since they can't rave about KU, from the Kansas City (red) Star, any longer.
From FOX Sports: That ended Memphis' 27 game winning streak.
Mizzou now advances to the Elite Eight to face top seed UConn at 3:40 p.m. Saturday.
"Missouri hangs on..." There wasn't any 'hanging on' about it, putz. Mizzou came out swinging and had Memphis on their heels with 7,8,9...20! point leads all game!
And how about Marcus Denmon's spectacular 3-point half court+ shot at the halftime buzzer. Only net.
Good luck against UConn 'cause you're definitely going to need a lot!
14 people died, 7 adults and 7 children.
"On Sunday, a small plane owned by Irving “Bud” Feldkamp crashed into Holy Cross Catholic Cemetery in Butte, Mont. The cemetery is home to a “Memorial to the Unborn,” dedicated to unborn children destroyed through abortion."
"A representative from the Diocese of Helena said at this time they are unsure whether the pro-life memorial was impacted by the crash."
From an apparently jonesin' Politico:
“There was one question that was voted on that ranked fairly high: that was whether legalizing marijuana would improve the economy and job creation,” Obama said, with a chuckle. “I don’t know what this says about the online audience.”
Pres. Obama was more circumspect:“This was a fairly popular question — we want to make sure it was answered. The answer is no. I don’t think that is a good strategy to grow our economy,” he said to laughter and applause from the live East Room audience of union members, teachers, business leaders and others.
Most of the drug questions posted on the site, while rarely asked at the White House, were far from bizarre. Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the federal government would defer to state governments whether to allow the use of marijuana for medical purposes. And just Wednesday, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, traveling in Mexico, questioned U.S. drug policies and said America’s huge appetite for narcotics was fueling the staggering violence south of the border. (Lord knows these gangsters ain't responsible, DIPWAD!)
While Obama’s answer was unequivocal, it was also dismissive and didn’t explain why legalization was unwise.
It seems part of the popularity of marijuana questions was fueled by NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, which urged people to vote for questions supporting the legalization of cannabis in a posting on its Web site.
Surprised? Me, too. Gekko's a fictitious movie villain, so who really knows. But, the real life fat cat villains, more often than not, turn out to be heavy hitter contributers to democratic causes & candidates.
Take recent events surrounding Bernie Modaff, perpetrator of the biggest investor fraud in history - a $50-billion Ponzi scheme. He's been convicted, but since 1991, Madoff and Company Spent Nearly $1 Million on Washington Influence with 88% going to democrat candidates.
So why do people assume 'republican' when they think of congressional influence and corruption?
Back in 1989, 5 U.S. senators were accused of corruption in the Keating 5 scandal. John McCain(R) was one of those involved (and exonerated), but few remember that the other 4 senators were all democrats! John Glenn(D) was the only democrat cleared of wrongdoing.
The 2008 presidential election was the most expensive in history at nearly 1 billion dollars. Pres. Obama(D) raised 3/4 of that total.
Obama had help from some big contributers. George Soros was not only a big contributer & supporter of Barak Obama, he's the big money behind the radical, open borders 'Open Society Institute' & the liberal activist organization, 'Center for American Progress', plus the vile leftist propaganda outlet, Media Matters. During this worst economic downturn in 75 years, George Soros, one of the richest men in the world, is 'having a very good crisis' - he earned nearly one billion dollars in 2008.
How about yourself? Did you make 6 figures for 14 months of work? Pres. Obama's White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel(D), did just that in 2000-2002 during his 14 month stay on the board of mortgage giant Freddie Mac, who's portfolio of bad loans & corrupt accounting helped trigger the current housing crisis.
So why do people usually think 'republican' when buying the White House and influence?
Maybe it is safe to assume that Gordon Gekko is a Democrat. Take it away, Ann Coulter!
Mizzou Basketball Travels To Sweet 16 in Glendale, Ariz., to square off against Memphis on Thursday.
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"The data was presented at a conference of scientists who gathered the other week in NY to show why global climate is not driven by CO2 - man made or otherwise (see here for documents - H/T Powerline). First is a chart showing that not only were there warmer periods than the current global climate levels since the last major ice age, the majority of that time since the ice age (12,000 years) was warmer than today:"
JP over at CC laments that he would "rather see a prosperity plan than a mere survival guide coming from Washington."
I ferget... Is This the Socialism Part or the Fascism Part?
"Goal Is to Limit Risk to Broader Economy"
Ah, yes. That 'equality of outcome thang' the leftists love so much. Ain't that right, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae?
"The Obama administration is considering asking Congress to give the Treasury secretary unprecedented powers to initiate the seizure of non-bank financial companies, such as large insurers, investment firms and hedge funds, whose collapse would damage the broader economy, according to an administration document.
The government at present has the authority to seize only banks.Giving the Treasury secretary authority over a broader range of companies would mark a significant shift from the existing model of financial regulation, which relies on independent agencies that are shielded from the political process. The Treasury secretary, a member of the president's Cabinet, would exercise the new powers in consultation with the White House, the Federal Reserve and other regulators, according to the document."
"The government also would assume the authority to seize such firms if they totter toward failure.
Besides seizing a company outright, the document states, the Treasury Secretary could use a range of tools to prevent its collapse, such as guaranteeing losses, buying assets or taking a partial ownership stake. Such authority also would allow the government to break contracts, such as the agreements to pay $165 million in bonuses to employees of AIG's most troubled unit."
The feeding frenzy this A.M. is word that many top AIG execs have returned $30 million of the $165 million paid out in bonuses (paychecks, really, but who's to argue when Congressional malfeasance is in the water & mob rule in the air?).
When Will Pres. Obama(D) Return His $101,332 AIG Campaign Contribution?
Pres. Obama received that contribution during the 2008 campaign cycle - precisely the time AIG was gurgling down the financial crapper and subsequently received $150 billion gub'mint handout via RINO GW Bush.
Senator Chris Dodd(D) - Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, who was instrumental in crafting the legislation which allowed the bonuses to be highballed to those AIG execs, has already returned his $103,900 in 2008 AIG campaign contributions.
Thank you, Senator. Leadership by example. You don't think his decision was influenced by the fact that his wife worked for a subsidiary of AIG? In the Bahamas. (I wonder why that company was based in the Bahamas, Senator?)
But, I digress. How about you Pres. Obama? A little leadership by example? When will you return your $101,332 AIG campaign contribution?
“I appreciate that President Obama has completed his ‘March Madness’ Tournament Bracket,” (Sen. John) Cornyn(R) said. “Yet the organizational chart of his administration still has far too many open slots.” (video)
"Most Valuable Pundit" - Don Surber. He's on a hot streak slamming with a clue bat the congress critter kidlets and their titular unicorn leader. Click here for enlightment.
I don't think 'she' likes us very much.
"Nonetheless, the “advice” in both scenarios reflects actual positions taken by environmentalists. The misanthropy needed to call a human body “waste” is the same misanthropy behind the willingness to sacrifice human well-being for the sake of the planet.
Ultimately, what distinguishes modern environmentalism from the Christian idea of stewardship isn’t the degree of concern for the environment. It’s the deity in whose name we’re acting."
Or they lie a lot more than any other geek.
You're welcome.
MIT's 90 MPH Solar car to Race in the 2009 World Solar Challenge.
The rules of this contest are simple: Design and build a car capable of crossing the Australian continent on the power of sunlight!
The MIT team named the machine 'Eleanor', the Solar Race Car. I don't know why, either.
The 2009 World Solar Challenge, taking place in Australia from October 25th to 31st, will see some of the most efficient solar vehicles in the world compete in a seven day, 2,000 miles race from Darwin to Adelaide. One of the competitors will be Eleanor, the new electric race car by MIT's Solar Vehicle Team.
Us mortals simply call it a flying car.
The thing's manufacturer, Terrafugia, calls it 'The Transition'. Production is scheduled for 2011, and for the pocket change price of about 190 grand, you can have one.
2011 is after the 2010 mid term elections, so hopefully the adults will be back in charge and the economy much improved.
I'll wait for the VTOL version.
Nope. You won't be able to blast Boba Fett anytime soon, but Pentagon-researchers at Northrop Grumman are breaking barriers.
"The battlefield-strength breakthrough is just one part in a larger military push to finally make laser weapons a reality, after decades of unfulfilled promises. The Army recently gave Boeing a $36 million contract to build a laser-equipped truck. Raytheon is set to start test-firing a mortar-zapper of its own. Darpa is funding a 150 kilowatt laser project that is meant to be fitted onto "tactical aircraft."
"Fannie Mae, which suffered $59 billion in losses last year, has requested $15 billion in taxpayer assistance, and has said it expects to need plenty more."
Rep. Barney Frank(D) heads up this congressional parade of buffoons.
"What was supposed to be a legal lynching of AIG boss Edward Liddy over the firm's bonus plan turned into a humiliating defeat for the lynch mob. Liddy came off as a smart straight shooter, a man who gave up retirement for $1 a year to rescue AIG so it wouldn't bring down the financial system.
He also proved himself a cut above those who aimed to make cheap headlines at his expense. I'd pay to see him question Congress on its role in the economic mess.
Most important, he revealed the dirty little secret that much of Washington knew and approved of AIG's promises to pay retention bonuses to members of its financial products unit. That revelation came early in Liddy's testimony and punctured the hot air balloon.
Liddy's matter-of-fact claim directly implicates the Federal Reserve, which he called the "gatekeeper" for the 80% of AIG owned by the taxpayers. He also said Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner knew of the bonus plan nearly two weeks before it became public.
Over to you, President Obama."
$103,900 in 2008 campaign contributions, to be exact.
But only after he was relentlessly hounded into fessing up that it was he, Chris Dodd, democrat - Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, who was instrumental in crafting the legislation which allowed the bonuses to be highballed to those AIG execs. (video)
"The executives in the eye of the storm work for a Wilton-based division of AIG Inc. called AIG Financial Products, which is actually being closed.
AIG Financial Products played a pivotal role in the parent company's problems that prompted it to seek and receive more than $170 billion in government bailout money.
Connecticut state lawmakers also are looking at ways to take away the bonus money, which is being awarded to the executives as an incentive to keep them on the job while the company sells off the financial products portfolios.
While Dodd worked with his colleagues to address the problem, he had to answer questions about more than $103,000 in donations he received from AIG Financial Products workers during the 2008 campaign.
This is not the first time Dodd has found himself in the position of pillorying a corporate villain in one breath and in the next defending himself from claims he's too cozy with the same miscreant.
It was revealed last year that Dodd, who raged against abuses by the mortgage industry, had received a preferential loan for his home.
Since he is Senate finance chairman, eyebrows have continued to be raised about the contributions he's received from Wall Street firms."
The Senator is not the only one to pull back the wizard's thin veil on this tax it into oblivion 'scheme'. The WSJ, CNBC, The Detroit Press, Warren Buffet, and The 'i(heart)obama monogrammed knee pads NY Times all say that cap n trade is an economy killer.
Cap and Trade is a gub'mint manufactured 'solution' to a demagogued frenzy of pseudo-science known as global warming, or climate change. This warming, or change, has been thoroughly discredited by hundreds of reputable scientist, but the fanatical faithful tenaciously cling to this deluded chicken little dogma like a mesmerized cult.
Hence, the solution is gub'mint (isn't it always?). The intent, of course, is to funnel more private dollars from industry to the gub'mint in the form of that snake oil commodity of a deluded conscience, carbon credits.
In short, carbon credits are an imaginary commodity created by deducting what you hope happens from what you guess would have happened.
Think of it as a de facto tax on industry that -wait for it - trickles down in the form of higher prices to wholesalers, retailers & consumers which simply adds to killing our economy.
But, based on our Dear Leader's heretofore, superior intellect razzle dazzle, I think that's his objective. I'm just sayin'...
What is "what does a sprawling gub'mint bureaucrat demand when his own incompetence & complicity is exposed?"
Ding. Ding! DING!! We have a winnah!
"Senator Barack Obama received a $101,332 bonus from American International Group in the form of political contributions according to Opensecrets.org. The two biggest Congressional recipients of bonuses from the A.I.G. are - Senators Chris Dodd and Senator Barack Obama."
No relation to modern day congress critters.
Just kidding.
It's an extremely rare & fascinating find - three new fossilized octopus species.
"What most surprised (Dirk) Fuchs (of the Freie University Berlin) and his colleagues Giacomo Bracchi and Robert Weis was how similar the specimens are to modern octopus. "These things are 95 million years old, yet one of the fossils is almost indistinguishable from living species," Fuchs said."
"WHAT THE F*&#% WERE YOU GUYS THINKING?"
"Stewart knows of what he speaks. The comedian has logged a significant number of hours visiting wounded vets and listening to their war experiences. His work in that arena has garnered him recognition from the USO, who gave him a Merit Award for his work almost a year ago."
And more broadly, do the people he picked for his administration even know what they're doing?
"The tag of incompetence is powerful precisely because it is a nondenominational rebuke, even when it yields a partisan result. It became the strongest argument against the GOP hammerlock on Washington and, over two elections, gave Democrats their turn at total control.
But already feelings of doubt are rising again. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid were never held in high regard, so doubts about their motives and abilities are not surprising.What matters more is the growing concern about Obama and his team. The longest campaign in presidential history is being followed by a very short honeymoon.
Polls show that most people like Obama, but they increasingly don't like his policies. The vast spending hikes and plans for more are provoking the most concern, with 82% telling a Gallup survey they are worried about the deficit and 69% worried about the rapid growth of government under Obama. Most expect their own taxes will go up as a result, despite the President's promises to the contrary.
None other than Warren Buffet, an Obama supporter, has called the administration's message on the economy "muddled." Even China says it is worried about its investments in American Treasury bonds. Ouch."
"To be exact, the Debt now stands at $11,033,157,578,669.78. Divide it by the U.S. population and it comes up to over $36,000 in debt for every man, woman and child among us.And the government is running up mountains of debt with increasing speed. It took just over 5 ½ months for Uncle Sam to go another trillion dollars deeper in debt since hitting $10-trillion last September 30th. It’s the fastest jump in U.S. history."
"After the September 11 attacks, commercial airline pilots were allowed to carry guns if they completed a federal-safety program. No longer would unarmed pilots be defenseless as remorseless hijackers seized control of aircraft and rammed them into buildings."
"The Obama administration this past week diverted some $2 million from the pilot training program to hire more supervisory staff, who will engage in field inspections of pilots."
"Since Mr. Obama's election, pilots have told us that the approval process for letting pilots carry guns on planes slowed significantly. Last week the problem went from bad to worse. Federal Flight Deck Officers - the pilots who have been approved to carry guns - indicate that the approval process has stalled out."
"According to the Air Line Pilots Association, the government – since April 2003 -- has trained thousands of volunteer airline pilots as federal flight deck officers to protect passenger and cargo aircraft flying throughout the United States.
“The FFDO program has evolved from a small program that armed airline pilots to protect the flight deck into a substantial, cost-effective security institution,” ALPA says on its Web site.
The pilots’ union repeatedly has urged Congress to adequately fund the program, and its priorities for 2009 include bolstering the program."
I think they're going to go with one of these.
Or not. A federal tax liability vetting process will ultimately decide.
Averaged out, it's 58% vs 36% since the Nov. election.
The Daily Kuss, Excitable Andy, and Hugh Hewitt hardest hit. Maybe Uncle Obama has a handout for 'em?
TY PP
"Now it has come clear...now we know what they intend to do.
It is an end-run around Congress. They don't need to try to ban guns--they don't need to fight a massive battle to attempt gun registration, or limit "assault" weapon sales.
Nope. All they have to do is limit the amount of ammunition available to the civilian market, and when bullets dry up, guns will be useless.
Think we jest?"
Sometimes a hot babe in a plate of spaghetti is just an advertising gimmick.
Unless you're an art grad.
"The company president told Der Spiegel it never occurred to her that this would be seen as racist: "It was supposed to be a homage to the American lifestyle and the new US president."
"From an email.
Why? Because I think it is funny. And yes, I understand that we are still capable of and do teach math well.
But as I chuckled about it, this bit of humor is more about our priorities and some cultural issues than math.
1959-2009 (in the USA )"
Thousands of girls have suffered genital mutilation in Britain.
"Despite having been outlawed in 1985, female circumcision is still practised in British African communities, in some cases on girls as young as 5. Police have been unable to bring a single prosecution even though they suspect that community elders are being flown from the Horn of Africa to carry out the procedures."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
And I thought Bill Maher was the ultimate self deluded tool of his own derision.
...Not an academic with pencil and papers.
Russia takes the Biden Challenge.
The foot steps are falling harder n faster for baby boomers.
R.I.P. ol' red haired clown.
The last time MU won the conference was 1993 when it was called the Big 8.
NS explains why MU rightly deserves an NCAA slot.
Do you think he's a glow bull warmer or just a rich guy with too much time??
It's MU vs Baylor tonight for the Big 12 Championship.
Will a win tonight by MU clinch 'Coach of the Year' for MU's head coach Mike Anderson?
"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. This crisis provides the opportunity for us to do things that you could not do before." - Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Nov. 20, 2008
"A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe." - President Obama(D), Feb. 4, 2009
"Every month that we don't have an economic recovery package, 500,000,000 Americans lose their jobs." - Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi(D), Feb. 4, 2009
"This is an emergency. We've got to simply find a way to get this done as fast as possible and as well as possible, and that's what we're doing." - House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey(D), Feb. 6, 2009
"It’s not nationalization, it’s protecting the taxpayers’ interests." - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid(D), Feb. 23, 2009
"Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it."
A super-charged lithium ion battery?
If you own a cell phone, Ipod, or laptop computer, you own a lithium ion battery. They're long lasting - and take a long time to recharge. In small electronic items that's not a huge problem, but in the blossoming electric automobile technology, it's an interminably long one. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) appear to have found a solution:
"In an attempt to pick up the pace, the M.I.T. researchers coated the lithium iron phosphate material with an ion conductor, which in this case was a layer of glasslike lithium phosphate. Sure enough, the charge-carrying ions traveled much faster from their storage medium; a prototype battery the scientists built completely charged in about 10 to 20 seconds.
The results have impressed some battery experts. "I think this work is a really exciting breakthrough with clear commercial applications," says Yi Cui, an assistant professor of materials science and engineering at Stanford University.
Two companies have already licensed the technology, according to Kang. Researchers are not sure how much these batteries will cost when they hit the market, but Kang says they should be reasonably priced, given that it should be relatively cheap to produce them."
There's still big hurdles to over come in electric auto tech. For example: Current shelf life is only about 3 years, whether you use them or not; Lithium ion batteries are degraded by their own generated heat, and in extremely, very rare cases have been known to burst into flames; Plus Li-ion batteries are drastically damaged by a deep recharge cycle, and ruined when completely discharged (you know how frustrated you get when you're s.o. drives on fumes...?)
"When small men cast long shadows, the sun is going down."- Venita Cravens
The problem with taking the gub'mint's money is it comes with strings. And other marble mouth encumbrances.
It's one thing to dump billions of dollars down an influential rat hole and have insiders profit from the before hand knowledge of impact, then rightly call foul. Yet, quite another to force profitable banks to take TARP money, then brow beat 'em with petty potentate power trips.
"Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas."
Truth On The Market has all the details.
TY OL
First things, first.
"Four Citigroup Inc. executives who bought the bank’s stock last week generated a $2.2 million paper profit within nine days, regulatory filings show."
Last week, Obama rescinded the ban to use federal tax dollars on the bereft of results, embryonic stem cell research with a declaration to 'shield to science from politics'.
Charles Krauthammer, once again, expertly dismantles Obama's amoral, dissonant eloquence and pronounces it bankrupt:
"Obama's address was morally unserious in the extreme. It was populated, as his didactic discourses always are, with a forest of straw men. Such as his admonition that we must resist the "false choice between sound science and moral values." Yet, exactly 2 minutes and 12 seconds later he went on to declare that he would never open the door to the "use of cloning for human reproduction."
Does he not think that a cloned human would be of extraordinary scientific interest? And yet he banned it.
Is he so obtuse not to see that he had just made a choice of ethics over science? Yet, unlike President Bush, who painstakingly explained the balance of ethical and scientific goods he was trying to achieve, Obama did not even pretend to make the case why some practices are morally permissible and others not.
This is not just intellectual laziness. It is the moral arrogance of a man who continuously dismisses his critics as ideological while he is guided exclusively by pragmatism (in economics, social policy, foreign policy) and science in medical ethics."
"...Speaking of Rush Limbaugh, a review of his appearance at the CPAC conference called his speech 'hateful', 'divisive' & 'nazi like'... Oh, I'm sorry. That was a recent review of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
"The country already has some of the strictest gun laws in the world. Handguns are only on sale to those aged 18 or over, with heavier weapons restricted to those over 21. No weapon can be purchased legally without a firearms ownership licence, which is only available after personal checks.
None of this appears to have prevented a 17-year-old former pupil of Albertville school in Winnenden from going on the rampage. According to Spiegel online, the student's family kept some 18 different weapons at home. Germany's ZDF TV, quoting police sources, confirmed one of the father's weapons was missing."
"The German Police Federation, Konrad Freiberg, proposed fitting schools with doors that could only be opened with personalized swipe cards.
But the president of the German Federation of Teachers, Josef Kraus, said such systems would only give a false sense of security. "If someone wants to go on a rampage, he can also target a schoolbus and there's nothing you can do about it," he said.
Wolfgang Bosbach, deputy parliamentary leader of Merkel's conservatives, said was too soon to draw conclusions from the shooting.
"We must examine the causes and the background of this crime," Bosbach said. He warned against turning the country's schools into "maximum security facilities."
Pelosi responds "OHNO, I DINNIT!!"
"But Judicial Watch said that Pelosi was notorious for making special demands for high-end aircraft, lodging last-minute cancellations and racking up additional expenses for the military.
The e-mails showed repeated attempts by Pelosi aides to request aircraft, sometimes aggressively, and by Department of Defense officials to accommodate them. "
Other people's money.
"In the end, 8 Republican senators voted for the bill. That’s right, 8. Specter and Snowe were consistent - they’ve never seen an outlandish and wasteful, pork packed, deficit-funded spending bill they didn’t like.
Who else joined them?"
Taliban's New Top Operational Officer Was At GITMO.
Update: If you've been looking for Erick Stakelbeck, he's on CBN News.
Related: Gitmo Prisoners Admit Their Role in 9/11 And Proud of It!
"They claimed the United States "will fall, politically, militarily and economically" and warned:"Your end is very near and your fall will be just as the fall of the towers on the blessed 9/11 day."
The Dems were never like that during the previous administration.
"President Obama’s budget doesn’t have enough support from lawmakers to pass, the Senate Budget Committee chairman said Tuesday.
Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) said he has spoken to enough colleagues about several different provisions in the budget request to make him think Congress won’t pass it."
Libya Tortures Four Christian Converts From Islam.
Freedom of, or from, religion must be a foreign concept in Lybia, as it is in many other parts of the Islamic world.
Muhammad said, "If a Muslim discards his religion, kill him." RS over at JW applies some black humor to this horrible situation to concluded that the Lybians are obviously moderates.
Sadly, there's more from the religion of brutality & abuse:
Saudis To Lash 75-Year-Old Woman For 'Mingling'.
She was arrested by the religious police (no joke) after bringing bread to two young men who are not close relatives.
And from our snubbed friends across the pond, Muslim Protesters At Parade Hurl Abuse At British Troops Returning From Iraq (Video)
I guess they couldn't afford mobile touch screen internet w/ blue tooth.
Or should I parody with something besides monkeys??
Either way, a creepy oligarchical activist group is taking shape on the left side of D.C. to 'problem solve'.
It's not clear if Herr Ubermann is ranked among them.
Click on over to HA to find out why AP gets paid the big bucks.
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"You know, it’s embarrassing when Europeans come over here, they all speak English, they speak French, they speak German. And then we go over to Europe and all we can say is merci beaucoup. Right?" - Mr. Obama, July 9, 2008
"I know because I don’t speak a foreign language. It’s embarrassing!" - Mr. Obama, July 11, 2008
"The real views of many in Obama administration were laid bare by a State Department official involved in planning the Brown visit, who reacted with fury when questioned by The Sunday Telegraph about why the event was so low-key.
The official dismissed any notion of the special relationship, saying: "There's nothing special about Britain. You're just the same as the other 190 countries in the world. You shouldn't expect special treatment." The apparent lack of attention to detail by the Obama administration is indicative of what many believe to be Mr Obama's determination to do too much too quickly."
