Feds pour $32 million more into beleaguered solar industry

Feds pour $32 million more into beleaguered solar industry - Watchdog.org
The Department of Energy has doled out another $32 million to support the solar industry, a sector fraught with technology challenges and scandal – and nevertheless propped up with billions of taxpayer dollars during the Obama Administration.
This latest funding is dedicated to training a workforce of solar technicians, developing new technology and implementing a database to share performance data, the DOE announced in a press release last week.
The training goal is 75,000 workers by 2020 and an undisclosed amount of “other professionals” in other fields such as real estate, finance, insurance and fire and safety.
What the release didn’t say was that the Obama Administration has spent $150 billion on green initiatives between 2009 and 2014, yet the industry cannot survive without government giveaways, a Brookings Institution study found.
“Taxpayers shouldn’t be forced to spend even more money on job-training programs that are proven failures,” said Heritage Foundation energy expert David W. Kreutzer.
“Industry will provide job-training where there are real jobs to be filled. 
The energy revolution in places like North Dakota and Texas has created hundreds of thousands of jobs—many of which required considerable technical skill—without a federally funded job-training program.”
...SolarCity also finds itself under investigation by the FBI for allegations it misused taxpayer funds. In that case, The Oregonian reported that after it blew a federal deadline SolarCity officials backdated an application for a $12 million government grant.
...“If solar is as competitive as its supporters say, then great!
We can get rid of renewable mandates, net-metering, the 30 percent investment tax credit, etc.; and let solar run everybody else out of business,” Kreutzer said.

Obama: ‘Many of the Things Said About Me Are Terribly Unfair’ | TheBlaze.com

Obama: ‘Many of the Things Said About Me Are Terribly Unfair’ | TheBlaze.com:

"President Barack Obama told a gathering of young Southeast Asian leaders that democracy has led to “terribly unfair” things being said about him.

“As I always point out, democracy is hard,” Obama told the town hall gathering of 75 people with the Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative at the White House Monday. “I think many of the things said about me are terribly unfair.”

Economic suicide--------State Senate OKs health coverage for many immigrants here illegally

State Senate OKs health coverage for many immigrants here illegally - LA Times:
"The state Senate on Tuesday approved a hotly debated measure that would allow many immigrants in the country illegally to sign up for special healthcare programs that would offer the same benefits as Medi-Cal.
The action comes just days after lawmakers significantly scaled back the plan, which originally would have offered state-subsidized Medi-Cal to people in the country without authorization.
State Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens) said his proposal provides “what we can realistically achieve now” for the estimated 2 million people in the state illegally.
“We are talking about our friends. 
We are talking about our neighbors and our families who are denied basic healthcare in the richest state of this union,” Lara told his colleagues.
...Sen. Jeff Stone (R-Murrieta) said the legislation only makes worse a shortage of physicians to treat patients on Medi-Cal.
“This bill would only add hundreds of thousands of patients to the rolls with no one to care for them,” Stone said."

What the $15/hr morons will never understand

History for June 3

History for June 3 - On-This-Day.com:
Jefferson Davis 1808/1808 - American soldier, politician, President of the Confederate states of America during the U.S. Civil War , Leo Gorcey 1916/1917 - Stage and movie actor, Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz) 1925 - Actor ("Sweet Smell of Success," "Some Like it Hot," father of actresses Jamie Lee Curtis and Kelly Curtis 


Boots Randolph 1927 - Musician, his saxophone hit became Benny Hill's signature tune, Larry McMurtry 1936 - Author ("Lonesome Dove"), Rafael Nadal 1986 - Tennis player 



1539 - Hernando De Soto claimed Florida for Spain. 


1784 - The U.S. Congress formally created the United States Army to replace the disbanded Continental Army. On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress had created the Continental Army for purposes of common defense and this event is considered to be the birth of the United States Army. 


1805 - A peace treaty between the U.S. and Tripoli was completed in the captain's cabin on board the USS Constitution. 


1856 - Cullen Whipple patented the screw machine. 


1888 - "Casey at the Bat" the poem by Ernest Lawrence Thayer was first published. 



1937 - The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, married Wallis Warfield Simpson. 


1965 - Edward White became the first American astronaut to do a "space walk" when he left the Gemini 4 capsule. 


1989 - Chinese army troops positioned themselves to began a sweep of Beijing to crush student-led pro-democracy demonstrations in Tiananmen Square. 


2003 - Sammy Sosa (Chicago Cubs) broke a bat when he grounded out against the Tampa Bay Devil Rays. The bat he was using was a corked bat.(Illinois, Florida) 

Obama's America: Guess which lunch time sandwich has now been deemed racist?

Obama's America: Guess which lunch time sandwich has now been deemed racist?:

"…The Tribune noted that the school started the new year with “intensive staff trainings, frequent staff meetings, classroom observations and other initiatives,” to help educators understand their own “white privilege,” in order to “change their teaching practices to boost minority students’ performance.””Last Wednesday, the first day of the school year for staff, for example, the first item of business for teachers at Scott School was to have a Courageous Conversation — to examine a news article and discuss the ‘white privilege’ it conveys,” the Tribune added."



This isn't White privilege - PB&J is AMERICANA!

White privilege only exists in the minds of liberal nuts - completely unrelated to the nuts used in the all-American, classic sandwich.  

Victims of Climate Wars Seek Asylum in Asia.

Victims of Climate Wars Seek Asylum in Asia. | Somewhat Reasonable:
"People migrate when they are starving, fearful or oppressed.
Industries are the same.
At the same time that unhappy people are flooding towards Europe and Australia, the climate wars in those same countries are sending struggling business refugees to Asia.
They are migrating as government promotion of expensive intermittent energy (wind and solar) and government taxes on hydro-carbon energy cause soaring electricity costs and falling profits.
The sad results of Europe’s infatuation with wind and solar energy toys are clear. 
Without Russian gas, French nuclear, Scandinavian hydro, North Sea oil, Iceland geothermal and German and Polish coal, the European green zone would freeze in the dark every winter. 
Green energy is not the solution – it is the problem...
Future generations will look back in wonder at this futile expulsion of our capital, industry and jobs. It will not reduce CO2 emissions – just moves them elsewhere with not the slightest effect on Earth’s climate or biosphere."

No money for potholes or bridges but plenty for empty choo choo trains-----Michigan may temporarily suspend lease on unused rail cars for Ann Arbor-Detroit line

Michigan may temporarily suspend lease on unused rail cars for Ann Arbor-Detroit line - Crain's Detroit Business:
"LANSING — A Michigan state agency said Monday it is negotiating to temporarily suspend the lease on 23 commuter rail cars that have sat unused and cost the state $11.4 million.
Michigan Transportation Department Rail Director Tim Hoeffner told reporters in a conference call that negotiations are ongoing with Great Lakes Central Railroad, the company from which the state is leasing the cars.
Hoeffner said the company is willing to relieve the department of lease payments for up to five years so the company can sublease the cars to another rail project."

Militant Black Muslim Leader Calls for “War” Against Police and Whites - Eagle Rising

Militant Black Muslim Leader Calls for “War” Against Police and Whites - Eagle Rising:

"Once again, the leader of the New Black Panther Party, Malik Zulu Shabazz, is making waves for some vile and explosive comments that he recently made on his “Black Power Radio” program.

The outspoken and violent man argued that police brutality in America had gone too far and that black communities must start defending themselves against the violence of white America – “by any means necessary.”

Waddya bet she gets reelected. It is Flint. And it is democrats------Flint without candidates on August primary ballot after clerk announces wrong filing deadline

Flint without candidates on August primary ballot after clerk announces wrong filing deadline - Crain's Detroit Business:
"Flint remains without any candidates on the ballot for the Aug. 4 primary after a judge ruled against a City Council member's request to get his name onto it.
State election officials say that (DEMOCRAT) City Clerk Inez Brown mistakenly told candidates their nominating petitions with at least 900 valid signatures were due April 28. 
The actual deadline was April 21."

Obama: I Don’t Believe In Divisive Racial Politics - Breitbart

Obama: I Don’t Believe In Divisive Racial Politics - Breitbart:

"President Obama explained to a group of young Asian leaders today that it was important not to betray one’s principles while being a leader.

He pointed out that one of his core principles is to “treat everyone fairly” regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation or religion.

“One of my core principles is that I will never engage in a politics in which I’m trying to divide people or make them less than me because they look different or have a different religion,” Obama said. “That’s a core principle, that’s not something I would violate.”

I thought Detroit was broke------Business owners can apply for loans, tech help through Motor City Match starting today

Business owners can apply for loans, tech help through Motor City Match starting today - Crain's Detroit Business:
"The program will offer $500,000 in grants, loans and technical assistance to a wide variety of firms, from those in the idea phase to those needing help to build out their space.
“Business owners tell us there are two main problems: finding the right space and getting all of the funding together to open,” said Rodrick Miller, CEO of the Detroit Economic Growth Corp., which administers the program. “"

Latest GDP Report Proves that Obama is Purposefully Destroying America | TheBlaze.com

Latest GDP Report Proves that Obama is Purposefully Destroying America | TheBlaze.com:

"Here are the facts.

The first quarter GDP – which is the measurement of our economy – was just revised on Friday to negative 0.07%. This number is a disaster.

But this isn’t some aberration or outlier. This is the entire Obama presidency. Obama’s seven first quarters as president are at a combined average of NEGATIVE 0.43%. Obama is the only president in the history of America’s recorded economic measurement to accomplish this.

Let me repeat: This is the worst seven-year record in the history of America’s recorded GDP."

Feds give Michigan State $585,000 to study ‘far right’ social media use

Feds give Michigan State $585,000 to study ‘far right’ social media use:
"Even as Americans today celebrate the temporary expiration of the Patriot Act, plans are underway by the feds to increase monitoring of Internet activity.

The Department of Justice recently awarded Michigan State University a $585,719 grant to study  “far-right” groups’ social media use, an effort aimed at battling violent extremism, the Washington Free Beacon reports.

The grant summary states:

There is currently limited knowledge of the role of technology and computer mediated communications (CMCs), such as Facebook and Twitter, in the dissemination of messages that promote extremist agendas and radicalize individuals to violence.

The proposed study will address this gap through a series of qualitative and quantitative analyses of posts from various forms of CMC used by members of both the far-right and Islamic extremist movements..."

The New Nationwide Crime Wave

The New Nationwide Crime Wave - WSJ
Since last summer, the airwaves have been dominated by suggestions that the police are the biggest threat facing young black males today.
A handful of highly publicized deaths of unarmed black men, often following a resisted arrest—including Eric Garner in Staten Island, N.Y., in July 2014, Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., in August 2014 and Freddie Gray in Baltimore last month—have led to riots, violent protests and attacks on the police.
Murders of officers jumped 89% in 2014, to 51 from 27.
President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder, before he stepped down last month, embraced the conceit that law enforcement in black communities is infected by bias.
The news media pump out a seemingly constant stream of stories about alleged police mistreatment of blacks, with the reports often buttressed by cellphone videos that rarely capture the behavior that caused an officer to use force.
Almost any police shooting of a black person, no matter how threatening the behavior that provoked the shooting, now provokes angry protests, like those that followed the death of Vonderrit Myers in St. Louis last October.
The 18-year-old Myers, awaiting trial on gun and resisting-arrest charges, had fired three shots at an officer at close range.
...The state’s attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, wants to create a special state prosecutor dedicated solely to prosecuting cops who use lethal force.
New York Gov.Andrew Cuomo would appoint an independent monitor whenever a grand jury fails to indict an officer for homicide and there are “doubts” about the fairness of the proceeding (read: in every instance of a non-indictment); the governor could then turn over the case to a special prosecutor for a second grand jury proceeding.
This incessant drumbeat against the police has resulted in what St. Louis police chief Sam Dotson last November called the “Ferguson effect.”
Cops are disengaging from discretionary enforcement activity and the “criminal element is feeling empowered,” Mr. Dotson reported.
Arrests in St. Louis city and county by that point had dropped a third since the shooting of Michael Brown in August.
Not surprisingly, homicides in the city surged 47% by early November and robberies in the county were up 82%.
Similar “Ferguson effects” are happening across the country as officers scale back on proactive policing under the onslaught of anti-cop rhetoric.
Arrests in Baltimore were down 56% in May compared with 2014.
“Any cop who uses his gun now has to worry about being indicted and losing his job and family,” a New York City officer tells me.
“Everything has the potential to be recorded.
A lot of cops feel that the climate for the next couple of years is going to be nonstop protests...”

Vince Vaughn Goes Off on Gun Rights in a Way That Will Make 2nd Amendment Advocates Smile: ‘Banning Guns Is Like Banning Forks’ | TheBlaze.com

Vince Vaughn Goes Off on Gun Rights in a Way That Will Make 2nd Amendment Advocates Smile: ‘Banning Guns Is Like Banning Forks’ | TheBlaze.com:

"In excerpts from the interview published Monday, Vaughn said he supports the right for people to have a gun in public “full stop, not just in your home” and that the Second Amendment is “not about duck hunting” but “to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government”:

Marijuana church given tax-exempt status in Indiana: 'Somebody at the IRS loves us'

Marijuana church given tax-exempt status in Indiana: 'Somebody at the IRS loves us' - Washington Times:
"The IRS has incorporated an Indianapolis marijuana-smoking church as a tax-exempt religious organization.
Bill Levin, founder of the First Church of Cannabis in Indianapolis, was notified of the approval last week, which will now allow donors to deduct contributions on their taxes, the CNHI Indiana Statehouse Bureau reported Saturday.
IRS documents provided by Mr. Levin confirmed the agency’s approval, CNHI said.
“Somebody at the IRS loves us because we got it back in less than 30 days,” Mr. Levin told Tax Analysts’ David van den Berg.
The church is currently in negotiations for two spaces in Indianapolis and plans to “proselytize the wonderfulness of the gift that this plant is to our human nature,” Mr. Levin said.
So far, more than 600 members have paid amounts ranging from $4.20 to $1,000 to join the church, Mr. Levin said.
Fundraising is being conducted partly on gofundme.com, where the church has raised over $10,800.
The church’s first service is scheduled for July 1 — the day the state’s Religious Freedom Restoration Act goes into effect."

History for June 2

History for June 2 - On-This-Day.com
Marquis de Sade 1740 - French aristocrat, revolutionary and writer, Thomas Hardy 1840 - Novelist and poet of the naturalist movement, Johnny Weissmuller 1904 - Olympic swimmer, he was the sixth actor to portray Tarzan in movies 


Pete Conrad (Charles "Pete" Conrad, Jr.) 1930 - American naval officer, third person to walk on the moon, Sally Kellerman 1937 - Actress, Marvin Hamlisch 1944 - Composer 


Jerry Mathers 1948 - Actor ("Leave it to Beaver"), Dana Carvey 1955 - Comedian, actor ("Saturday Night Live," "Moving"), Wayne Brady 1972 - Actor, comedian ("Whose Line is it Anyway") 


1774 - The Quartering Act, which required American colonists to allow British soldiers into their houses, was reenacted. 


1793 - Maximillian Robespierre initiated the "Reign of Terror". It was an effort to purge those suspected of treason against the French Republic. 



1883 - The first baseball game under electric lights was played in Fort Wayne, Indiana. 


1897 - Mark Twain, at age 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration." He was responding to the rumors that he had died. 


1953 - Elizabeth was crowned queen of England at Westminster Abbey. 


1954 - U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that there were communists working in the CIA and atomic weapons plants. 



1995 - Captain Scott F. O'Grady's U.S. Air Force F-16C was shot down by Bosnian Serbs. He was rescued six days later. 


1998 - Voters in California passed Proposition 227. The act abolished the state's 30-year-old bilingual education program by requiring that all children be taught in English.