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Solar Company Execs Hide From Light

The sudden bankruptcy of the Fremont, California, manufacturer of solar panels​—​after it was feted as a model creator of “green jobs” by President Obama and Vice President Biden​—​has already featured FBI raids, contentious congressional hearings, and demands for a special prosecutor to investigate. The plot thickened further last week when Solyndra’s two top executives, who made 20 trips to the White House while their loan application was under consideration, invoked the Fifth Amendment rather than answer questions from the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison and CFO Brian Stover invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 20 times.

Big Green and the Obamaninnies are hoping to portray this spectacular failure as just an isolated incident, though it is anything but. Politicians on the Left continue to push the Big Green agenda, and even as investigations are pursued in the Solyndra affair, no less than 15 similar fundings are being fast-tracked by the administration.

It's hog heaven for scammers.

You may have heard of SolarCity, as they've been offering "free" rooftop panel einstallations in Oregon for a few months. Don't look to hear from them again:

SolarCity Corp.’s loan guarantee may have been undone by the bankruptcy of Solyndra LLC.

SolarCity, a Foster City, California-based developer of residential rooftop solar systems, said yesterday that the U.S. Energy Department won’t complete the $275 million conditional guarantee that was offered a day after Solyndra sought protection from creditors.

 

Related articles

• Solyndra Silence: Execs Take the 5th (foxnews.com)
• Solyndra hearing to go on, despite execs' silence (msnbc.msn.com)
• Unlike oil execs, green scammers have much to hide (junksciencesidebar.com)
• FBI Gets Results: America Will Not Hear from Solyndra Execs (reason.com)

Tax Dollars At Work

Voters stupidly approved a levy that allocated millions of dollars to the regional governmental layer known as Metro. These funds were to be used exclusively to "preserve" natural areas.

So, what are the folks at that brain-trust thinking of doing? Why, they think that maybe they should buy the Blue Heron industrial site in Oregon City. Blue Heron Paper Co.went bankrupt earlier this year, and Metro's considering a multi-million-dollar buy. A "natural" area? Hardly - the place has been industrial space since 1829.

This is just more governmental mission-creep. It appears that they'd like to get more involved in development: If Metro buys the land, it will years before it opens to the public or results in new commercial projects. It's classic bait-and-switch: We need you to give us millions of dollars so that we can "preserve" natural spaces.

Now that we have your money, we're getting into commercial development. Go die in a fire, and have a nice day.

Related articles

• Metro may buy site near Willamette Falls (bendbulletin.com)

Unhappy Union Thugs Sue Cops

PORTLAND, Ore. – The International Longshore and Warehouse Union filed a lawsuit against Cowlitz County, its sheriff and the city of Longview's police chief Thursday alleging police brutality.

The ILWU Local 21 is in a labor dispute with EGT Development at the Port of Longview. It says its members should be allowed to work at a new terminal but EGT has hired workers from a Portland-based union. 

As is generally known, the thugs have disabled trains, dumped cargo, and taken hostages - at one point, they yanked a security guard out of his car and rolled the vehicle into a ditch. This is how they "negotiate":

These morons believe that any job involving freight is automatically their job, and they're willing to resort to just about anything to enforce their version of reality. The latest move by the poor babies is the frivolous lawsuit venue.

Oddly, there is a degree of merit in their claim: it would have been more humane if the cops had just shot 'em dead.

Related articles

• Union sues over 'brutal' arrest tactics (seattletimes.nwsource.com)
• Longview port protests turn violent; Seattle port shut down (bizjournals.com)

Smackdown

Coming from a federal judge, this smackdown of Big Green is extraordinary. He was outraged by the so-called testimony of a couple of Interior Department "scientists"; labeling their words misleading, false, contradictory, and went on from there to accuse Interior of acting in bad faith and attempting to deceive the court.

You just never see something like this coming from the federal bench. This was butt-kicking, and well-deserved at that.

U.S. District Court judges aren't known for using inflammatory language in deciding the weighty issues that come before them on the federal bench. So it was remarkable to read the scorching indictment of a federal environmental agency and two of its scientists last week by Judge Oliver W. Wanger. (See also Washington Examiner Columnist Ron Arnold's detailed look at the case on Page 30.)The case concerns how the government should manage California water supplies and at the same time seek to preserve the delta smelt, an allegedly endangered species of minnow-like fish.

Related articles

• More Interior Scientists Are Taking Heat (green.blogs.nytimes.com)
• Judge Curtails Salmon Plan, Rips Fed Scientists (volokh.com)

The Science Was Settled

Ahead, warp factor 9, Mr. Sulu.

Ah, science fiction! Nothing can travel faster than the speed of light - that science has been settled for decades. It'd be interesting if you could exceed the speed of light, but it's not possible. The science is settled.

It looks, however, as though the universe never got the memo.

The one constant in science is that it is never settled, despite what politicians, money-grubbers, and free-lance "science writers" tell you. Now, go forth and save the planet™. And whatever you do, don't "deny" the "scientific concensus".

Oh, and by the way, if you happen to have asthma, you will soon be required to do your part to save the planet™ - WASHINGTON — Asthma patients who rely on over-the-counter inhalers will need to switch to prescription-only alternatives as part of the federal government's latest attempt to protect the Earth's atmosphere.

Rest in peace, citizen.

Related articles

• Particle may have gone faster than speed of light (sfgate.com)
• Speed of light 'broken' at CERN, scientists claim (telegraph.co.uk)
• Scientific Consensus Refutes Deniers of Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity (rogueoperator.wordpress.com)

Bollocks

Joe McGinniss has an abiding hatred for Sarah Palin. So much so that he creepily rented a place next door to her home, the better to keep tabs on her. Then he went all-in:

He acknowledges that because of his own personal dislike of Sarah Palin, he is desperate to find support for “salacious stories” about her family; he admits further that he has struck out, and there is no evidence to support any of them. But did that deter either him or Random House? No! He wrote the book anyway, and they published it.

Not that anybody at Random House has an agenda, or anything.

Out There

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What counts as a "green job"? Well, if you happen to be in the Obamanation, driving a bus that happens to run on “clean energy” should count as a “green job.”

Florida Republican Rep. Connie Mack: “If I’m sitting in a chair made out of ‘green’ material, does that make my job ‘green’?”

The Obamaninnies are totally out there. They spent half a billion dollars (small change by D.C. standards, admittedly) to "create" some 6,000 "green jobs" - and many of those people were already employed. Having a bus driver switch from driving a diesel-powered bus to driving a hybrid bus doesn't mean that you've "created" a "green job". You haven't done a thing, other than throw money that you don't have, money that taxpayers will have to pay back, at a politically-correct unicorn.

Related articles

• Are "Green Jobs" A Scam? Ctd (andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com)
• House GOP Looks To End Solyndra Loan Program (abcnews.go.com)

Fortunately, They're Unbiased

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This article in the Zero is accompanied by a photo with the caption: 

Cattle grazing on Forest Service land tromp through Camp Creek, a John Day drainage stream full of steelhead trout.

Left unmentioned is the fact that anadromous fish reproduction is higher at such sites than at sites where fencing is used to restrict stream access. Equally interesting is the fact that the study referred to in the article involved logging in the Coast range, while the accompanying photo and caption have absolutely no relation to the article. Tributaries of the John Day River do not exist in the Coast range. Not a lot of cattle ranching in that area, either. 

Headline: Preemies May Face Higher Death Rates As Adults

"Even people born just a couple of weeks early had an increased risk of mortality."

Apparently, I've missed the memo. Doesn't every living thing have a 100% probability of mortality?