Now the battery maker (A123 Systems), which got a 500 MILLION dollar grant (only a portion of which was used before the feds cut them off) from the US taxpayers, is likely to file for bankruptcy.

How much more “Green” ventures will we have to help finance before we realize that this is pouring money down a rathole?

If the business plans are valid, then there will be plenty of venture capital available for financing these startups. I wouldn’t even have issues with giving them some tax breaks for the first 5 years. But the way these ventures have been managed so quickly into direct failure, enriching only the management group, should be seen as criminal.

A quarter BILLION dollars going towards…what? (Shouldn’t we as investors (albeit unwilling) at least get the salaries back from those folks that supervised the failure? )(Although I’d really prefer to see them jailed for malfeasance)

How many more failures of this type are on the horizon? How much more public money will we see go to waste with no jobs, no infrastructure, and no resulting return?

You should read this

It ain’t pretty. It IS biased, but it is also true, at least in the broad strokes.

And it shows the mindset.  Wild animals, sure. Caution IS required. I got that. But a massacre of non- threatening animals? Really? Why? Expediency? Bloodlust? What?

If you think many (not all!) police officers think you or your friends and/or family are any different, have any more value, than these animals, then you are foolish, delusional or just plain stupid.

Expect no better if and when.  

 The president was notified.

The shit nearly hit the fan.

But at least our Democratic president didn’t bow or anything.

You may already have seen this:

But when it’s put that way, it looks bad.

Very bad

Tried…

Heh.

12 years ago, the USS COLE was attacked in Yemen.

You’d think that some of the folks supposed to be looking out for the interests of the US and the security thereof would maybe remember who did the attacking…and what part of the world such things happen in (and where the perpetrators come from). But they don’t. Apparently all that eduction means nothing, as there are some (supposedly) really smart people being paid big bucks to make the decisions as to how to protect things on certain dates in certain parts of the world. But they sure make some stupid decisions about that stuff

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Total temperature rise in the last 15 years?

Exactly ZERO.

Not that you’ll hear about it on the MainStream Media.

And now the denials begin:

1. You can’t use 15 years as a basis to predict anything…(except that they always have).

B. There are more factors than just temperature (what we “deniers” have said all along!

And others yet to be heard…

 Is Global Warming Climate Change real? Maybe. Maybe not.

But we have wasted spent an awful lot of money (and enriched a great number of connected people in the process) to Do Something subsidize a renewable energy infrastructure that is ineffective for about the last 5 years or so….To what real effect?  

We have given an awful lot of money to, and subsidized the salaries of a significant number of “researchers” to prove….what?

We have strangled businesses and damaged our economy to make exactly what change in the environment? 

We have paid for a large number of “elites” to jet about the world in 1/3 full airplanes and spew How Many? tons of carbon from their private jets as they flock to exotic locations to “discuss” the “issues” in a party atmosphere group setting (rather than use video conferencing or other methods to save all that carbon and wasted energy) and accomplish exactly what?

Someday our descendants will look back and laugh at us for allowing this to happen. 

We are gonna have to think about things in this stark reality: