Money To Burn?: Department of Energy Dishes Out 1.5 Million to Goodyear and PPG

While the U.S. continues to rack up unprecedented debt, the Obama administration seems determined to continue on it's plan to Transform the economy.

The administration's latest 'investment' reminds me of when Obama said the best way to save gas is to keep your tires inflated, lets remember together...shall we?:



Well it seems the President wasn't kidding about the Tires. According to an article in TireBusiness.com, the Department of Energy (DOE) just gave $1.5 Million dollars in grants to Goodyear and PPG so that they can conduct studies in energy efficiency:

"The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $1.5 million grants to Cooper Tire & Rubber Co., Goodyear and PPG Industries Inc. to study, evaluate and develop technologies for improving the fuel economy of the nation’s vehicle fleet.

The grants, the first ever awarded by the DOE to companies in the tire industry, will fund vastly different projects, from Cooper’s challenge to cut passenger tire weight and improve fuel efficiency by 3 percent to Goodyear’s work on technology to keep truck tires properly inflated automatically, to PPG’s project to improve air pressure retention.

The grants were among 40 the DOE awarded recently as part of an initiative “to accelerate the development and deployment of advanced vehicle technologies,” according to Energy Secretary Steven Chu.

Awarded by the DOE’s Office of Vehicle Technology—whose mission is described as developing “more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly highway transportation technologies that enable America to use less petroleum”—the grants are worth more than $175 million."


Hmmm.... $1.5 Million from the DOE to make tires more energy efficient by making them lighter and keeping them inflated. How Green of the President to push that idea....again.

Funny... didn't a 'Green Company' that was touted by the President and who also received $535 Million dollars from the DOE just fail?

That reminds me about of a few old sayings...

One was about a person who continues to do the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result....

And the other was about a person and their money are soon parted....

Wasn't there something about a Fool in both of those....?

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CNS News: AFL-CIO President Says If Bush Tax Cuts Were To Expire, Half Our National Debt Would Be Gone

During a recent press conference Richard Trumka says that if the Bush Tax Cuts went away then the National debt would be gone.

And if i had wings.. I would be a bird.


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Kickbacks?: Company of CEO on Presidential Jobs Council Gets Partial Loan Guarantee For $852 Million Dollar Solar Project on Gov Land

The speed at which Obama is pushing his plan to Transform the economy is evident in the daily news. But what has not been as evident are the possible kickbacks that may be involved in that Transformation.

According to Brigtherenergy.org, the Department of Energy (DOE) has finalized a partial loan guarantee for an $852 Million dollar loan for a solar thermal project in California that is coincidentally on Government Land:

"The US Department of Energy has finalized a partial guarantee for an $852 million loan to support the development of a major solar thermal project being developed in California.

The Genesis Solar Project is a 250 megawatt (MW) parabolic trough concentrating solar power (CSP) facility that will increase the nation’s currently installed CSP capacity by about 50 percent.

NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, the project sponsor, estimates it will fund approximately 800 construction jobs and 47 operating jobs.

The project is located on land managed by the Bureau of Land Management in Riverside County, California.

“This project creates jobs, avoids greenhouse gas emissions and helps strengthen our nation’s renewable energy future,” said Energy Secretary Steven Chu. “With the support of loan guarantees, we will enable the deployment of clean, renewable sources at scale, which will help bring down the cost of solar power in the years to come."

NextEra's CEO, the company that just received the loan guarantee from the DOE, is a man named Lewis Hay.

Lewis Hay, or Lew as he is also called, just happens to be on President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.

NextEra also happens to be the largest clean energy company in North America with over 15,000 employees in 28 states and Canada who just happened to pull in over $15 Billion Dollars in revenues in 2010.

So all of these facts begs the question.

Why does the largest Clean Energy Company in North America that has over $15 Billion Dollars in revenues need the Department of Energy to back an $852 Million Dollar loan for their solar project that is going to be built on Government land?

Is all of this just a coincidence..?

Or a Kickback?

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Union Bosses: If Obama Doesn't Win We Are Doomed and There Will Be Fascism and Chaos.

During an SEIU Protest in PA, two Union Bosses make Dire Predictions if Obama Isn't Re-Elected.

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CNS News: White House: Only 'Fervent Partisan' Would Suggest Obama To Blame For Job Losses

According to CNS News:

"When asked questions about the president's upcoming speech on jobs and economic growth yesterday, White House spokesperson Jay Carney claimed that only the most 'fervent partisan' would suggest the 8 million plus jobs lost in this recession were lost because of actions Barack Obama took."

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Obama: The Unemployed are Being Discriminated Against

During a recent radio address, President Obama said that the unemployed are being discriminated against by employers.

Not really sure how that works....

Hat Tip Breitbart TV

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NASA 'Global Warming(Climate Change)' Scientist Arrested At Protest in Front of White House

According to The Blaze:

"Dr. James Hansen, the NASA scientist who claims that the agency tried to censor his findings about earth’s climate on behalf of the Bush administration, was one of 139 climate protesters arrested outside of the White House Monday. The protesters were demonstrating against the planned $7-billion Keystone XL pipeline, which would transport 500,000 barrels of crude per day from Canada all the way to the Gulf coast of Texas."

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Deneen Borelli: Regulations are "Killing Our Economy and Killing Jobs"

These Regulations are all apart of the Transformation of the Economy.

Horowitz: 'The Neo-Communist Left is Really the Democratic Party'

According to You Tube:

"Conservative activist David Horowitz says there are few good people left among elected officials in the Democratic Party. He calls President Barack Obama a radical from "the worst part of the 60's." In this Newsmax.TV video, Horowitz also discusses his personal introspective new book "A Point in Time."

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Transformation Continues: Reid- "Clean Energy Revolution Happening, But Not Quickly Enough"

(Image from Teahugger.com)

The Obama Administration's plan to Transform the current "Oil" based economy into a "Green" based economy is being carried out daily. From the Department of Energy to the USDA, numerous Government Agencies are being utilized to force this 'transformation'. But what is truly disturbing is that those on the left are not even trying to hide this plan, in fact some are even saying that the plan isn't happening fast enough.

According to an Article in the Washington Post National, Senator Harry Reid said that the "Green" Revolution is happening, but not fast enough for him:

"A clean energy revolution is under way in the United States but isn’t happening quickly enough, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday.

Reid told reporters in advance of a clean energy summit in Las Vegas that the country is still too dependent on foreign oil and needs to change that to help national defense and the economy.

“Our dependence on foreign oil is making our nation less secure, and is certainly damaging the health of our citizens,” he said.

Reid said he expects clean energy projects to be part of jobs bills the Senate will consider when it returns to session next week.

The Tuesday summit at the Aria Resort & Casino is expected to include Vice President Joe Biden, several governors and other influential policy experts, including Energy Secretary Steven Chu and U.S. Navy Secretary Ray Mabus."

Why isn't the "Revolution" happening fast enough?

Well according to Harry Reid it's the Republicans and Tea Party's fault:

"Reid and Podesta spoke outdoors in a porte-cochere where automakers including Nissan, Toyota and CODA Automotive touted the latest models of zero-emission cars for city driving, and casino company MGM Resorts International showed off a charging station offered at two of its Sin City properties.

Reid said he expects Obama to speak soon in strong favor of a new push for patent reform that will create 200,000 jobs. But he said that and other initiatives have been hard to get through given Republican opposition.

“The tea-party driven Republicans — it’s made it very difficult to get progressive things done for this Congress,” he said."

So as you can see this "Transformation/Revolution" isn't being hidden from view..

But instead is being proclaimed from the rooftops.

The reason you haven't heard about is is because no one on the 'Right' is paying attention.

Well.. Almost No One.


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Mark Levin - How Many Illegal Alien Relatives Does Barack Obama Have In Our Country

Good Question...How Many?

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Breitbart Participates In An Improptu Debate On The Obama Administration's 'Transparency'

On the set of "Courage" Andrew Breitbart debates the Obama Administration's Transparency, or lack of it, with an unknown man in colonial garb.

For the man in Black Garbs info, Obama does have lobbyists in his administration, at least 40 according to the Washington Examiner. Also Obama's Aides have regularly met with Lobbyists across the street from the White House.

The idea that Obama isn't in bed with Lobbyists is laughable.....if your in Washington D.C. ..your in bed with Lobbyists.

This video was shot by Victoria Jackson.

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Communist Party USA: "If GOP Policies Prevail A Whole Lot Of People Won't Survive."

The Communist Party USA (CPUSA), you know... the Communist organization that is funded by unions, has come out in support of re-electing President Obama in 2012.....Which to most is no surprise.

But what is surprising, and a tad disturbing, are the absolute and blatant fear mongering tactics that they are using to support Obama and the Democrats.

According to an article written by Jarvis Tyner, Executive Vice- Chair of the CPUSA, posted in the CPUSA News, People's World, if the Republicans get back in office, an their policies prevail, people are going to die:


"The Republicans must be defeated
by: JARVIS TYNER
august 26 2011


After watching the recent Republican presidential debate in Iowa, I am sure millions have been convinced more than ever that the Republicans must be defeated in 2012.

This motley crew of right-wing fanatics are not in favor of giving any concessions to the working class, the poor or the victims of systemic racism.

They have no regard for historic levels of poverty, unemployment, home foreclosures, hunger and homelessness that people of color suffer.

They don't care about the youth and children who attend run-down, understaffed and underfunded public schools every day.

The fact that tens of million of youth who should be going to college or starting their first real job but instead face the prospect of years, decades, perhaps even a lifetime of joblessness, underemployment and incarceration is a non-issue to them.

They didn't get the memo on global warming and the health care crisis.

The Iowa debate convened the real "death panel," because if the GOP policies prevail a whole lot of people won't survive.

In their debate, the war hawks pushed for more war, more squandering of blood and treasure while claiming to support the troops.

With the addition of Rick Perry, the political debate among the Republican contenders has moved even further to the right. The process of picking the next Republican "fuehrer" shows a party whose time has long past.

The GOP candidates oppose the concept of people before profits. As Mitt Romney put it last week, "corporations are people." Their uncompromising priority is protecting the wealth and privileges of the super rich, which means they are uncompromisingly against the general welfare of the people, particularly multiracial working majority.

They say they're opposed to big government, but that is a cover up.

By opposing raising taxes on the super rich and cutting the military budget and subsidies to big oil, they oppose jobs for the unemployed, rebuilding the collapsing infrastructure, ending the foreclosure crisis. Theirs is not a noble cause.

The very premise of their policies is a fallacy. If the dominant policies of the current Republican contenders prevail, our nation will be driven into a far deeper crisis economically, socially and politically.

The truth is that the crisis will not be overcome without increasing the wellbeing and buying power of working people. And that is what they are fighting tooth and nail.

The racial dynamic of their policies are something that should alarm all democratic minded people.

It is no accident that the tea party's largest base is among southern whites, who according to a recent Notre Dame study, continue to be highly influenced by the ideology of racism.

They considered black people inferior before Obama, and they continue to be motivated to defeat Obama because he is African American.

The driving force for progressive activism in the coming 2012 election is not how serious one can criticize Obama's concessions to the right but the grave historic danger from the right. The Republicans must be defeated.

Having just watched the movie The Help, and as the son of a mother and father who grew up in the Jim Crow South this writer is reminded of what is at stake. If the Republican-Libertarian-tea party Axis thinks we are going back to the days of Jim Crow, they are mistaken.

The extreme right has done enormous damage to the national spirit of unity and hope. And it is true that Obama didn't fight hard enough and succumbed to the enormous pressure from the right on too many occasions. However, the democratic forces have to take our country back from the fanatic right-wing minority.

One has to be impressed by the new militant spirit of fight back that is gaining momentum cross the country. Grassroots folks from people's and labor organizations are confronting tea party elected officials at their town hall meetings.

Labor is gearing up for the big fight for jobs and decent contracts. The immigrant rights movement is on the move.

The Congressional Progressive Caucus and Black Caucus are holding hearings on the issue of jobs creation through public works to repair our neglected infrastructure.

Taxing the rich has become a majority demand. Tens of thousands are lining up at job fairs organized to get corporations to step up and hire the unemployed, veterans and youth.

Peace forces are pushing to bring the troops home and transfer the money to create jobs and stop the massive number of foreclosures.

This is a crusade to put the people first.

Before the announcement of Hurricane Irene on Sunday, tens of thousands were planning to come to Washington to welcome the now postponed opening of the monument to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

What are they demanding? Jobs. Jobs. Jobs!!

Despite their correct criticisms of the president, they understand that the main danger comes from the right.

If the GOP regains all three branches of the government, the crisis of human suffering can and will become far more severe.

The majority of the American people understand that the reelection of Obama is not an option. It is part of what is necessary to win this epic battle."

More Hurricane Morons?: Jet-ski Madness Spreads

It seems like if you combine raw sewage, flooding and a jet-ski it produces at least one idiot who will ride it.

Below is a video of a flooded street in Newark New Jersey where a guy decides to use his jet-ski to... sit just there:



Here is another video of a group of people who think its a good idea to pile on a jet ski and ride it in a flooded field:



Here is a video of what appears to be a guy riding a jet-ski in a flooded street of New York:



Here is a news report before the storm hit of some jet-skiers sill riding around in the harbor:



And here is a video of an unknown town where a couple of people decide to use their jet-ski to go screaming down a flooded street:



Finally here is a video of two guys riding the waves of Irene in Florida on, you guessed it, Jet-skis:



Morons... they are everywhere.

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Hurricane Irene vs. The Idiots

I think the video speaks for itself...

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Transformation Continues: Department of Energy To Use $141 Million in Stimulus Funds To Demo Carbon Capture In Illinois

In yet another example of how the Obama Administration is trying to Transform the Economy and Not Save It, the Department of Energy is using $141 Million from the Stimulus Funds in order to demonstrate Carbon Capture in Illinois. According to care2.com:

"The U.S. Department of Energy recently broke ground on a facility that will use $141 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to demonstrate the efficacy of the carbon capture and storage process.

The project, which will be constructed near the Archer Daniels Midland biofuels plant in Decatur, Illinois, is the first federally-funded, large-scale integrated carbon capture and storage (CCS) demonstration project to move out of the construction phase. The announcement comes just a few weeks after American Electric Power abandoned its plans to build its $668 million CCS facility in New Haven, West Virginia.

The Illinois project will be designed to sequester approximately 2,500 metric tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) per day in the saline Mount Simon Sandstone formation at depths of approximately 7,000 feet. Researchers estimate that the sandstone formation can potentially store billions of tons of CO2 and has the overall potential to sequester all of the more than 250 million tons of CO2 produced each year by industry in the Illinois Basin region."

But demonstrating Carbon Capture isn't enough, the Department of Energy wants a Brainwashing...er... I mean "Education" facility at the local Community College in order to "teach" Carbon Capture:

"In addition to providing a working demonstration of CCS technology, the project also calls for an educational and training facility, the National Sequestration Education Center, slated to be housed at nearby Richland Community College in Decatur. The center will contain classrooms, training, and laboratory facilities, and it will offer students associate degrees in sequestration technology."

Isn't it nice to know that all of your hard earned and borrowed tax payer dollars are going to create jobs based upon preventing the bogus theory of Global Warming?

Now if we can only tax the rich and pass a third Stimulus, then the Obama Administration can finish turning the U.S. into that 'Green' Paradise that he has always talked about.

Ah... nothing like one man's Paradise becoming everyone else's...... Hell.

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How Illegals Are Helping To Destroy The Economy

Great Video that explains the burden that Illegal Migration plays on the economy thereby destroying it.

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More Wasted Money: USDA Gives Over $70,000 To B&Bs In Order To Push Local Food

According to CNS News:

"Among the 19 states receiving these funds is New York, which recently announced that it was awarded a $73,824 grant. This grant will be used to encourage bed and breakfast operators to feature locally produced food and agricultural products."

Examples like this just make me want more of my money back.

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Trasformation Continues: Obama Administration Spending $41 Million on Carbon Capture Research

Several weeks ago I wrote an article on how the Obama Administration is trying to Transform the Economy, not save it.

Obama is doing this by destroying the old "Oil Based" economy and laying the foundation for the New "Green Based" economy. As if that isn't bad enough, this New economy will have it's roots deep in the failed theory of Global Warming.

To help prove that point, here is an article from the AP today that says Georgia Tech is going to be receiving $2 Million, of a $41 Million dollar Department of Energy Grant program, that is to study ways of capturing carbon without raising the price of energy any more than 35%:

"ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia Tech has received a $2.4 million grant to study new ways to capture carbon dioxide from coal-burning power plants.

The grant from the U.S. Department of Energy was one of 16 valued at $41 million. The funding is meant to spur research on methods to cut greenhouse gas emissions from power plants without raising the cost of electricity more than 35 percent.

President Barack Obama's administration says it wants five to 10 commercial demonstration projects online by 2016.

Existing carbon capture technologies are highly inefficient, depriving plants of 20 to 30 percent of the electricity that they generate. Researchers at Georgia Tech are investigating ways to capture carbon dioxide on hollow fibers loaded with silica-supported adsorbents."

So while you sleep soundly at night thinking that Global Warming is dead...

The Obama Administration is busy at work using your tax payer borrowed funds to Transform this country into a "Green" Paradise.

Who says you can't have Nightmares when your awake?

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Al Gore Thiks Being a Global Warming Skeptic Today Is The Same As Being A Southern Racist In The Past

Hat Tip The Blaze

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Spider Man Took On Hurricane Irene?

If Spider Man was in Virginia, I guess Super Man was in New York?

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Al Gore In Denial: Scientists Wouldn't Lie About Global Warming For Money, Skeptics Would

According to Breitbart TV Al Gore said:

"This is an organized effort to attack the reputation of the scientific community as a whole, to attack their integrity, and to slander them with the lie that they are making up the science in order to make money. Look, first of all, these scientists don’t make a lot of money. They’re comfortable, and as they should be, but they don’t make a lot of money. That’s not their motivation for doing what they do."

So if these Scientists don't make alot of money then I guess they wouldn't have a good reason for taking bribes in order to alter data then would they?

Oh wait... never mind.

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MI News: Obnoxious Protest at Successful Choice School

Several days ago some of the unions in Wisconsin decided to intimidate teachers and staff at a local school where Governor Scott Walker just happened to be speaking.

This video demonstrates the thug like tactics that some in the union are willing to use in order to get their way. Pathetic..

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