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Another One Under the Bus
Or rather, falling on a sword:
Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Thursday that the buck stopped with him over the half-billion dollar loan made to California solar company Solyndra, using a hearing on Capitol Hill to take responsibility for the failed investment while continuing to defend his actions as not politically motivated.
This imbroglio just keeps getting thicker, and that is only aided by partisan hackery, of course.
[Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO)] complained about the recent Republican decision to issue a subpoena to the White House over Solyndra despite “good-faith efforts” by the White House to comply.
What “good faith efforts”? Ignoring a subpoena is not a “good faith effort” by any definition. That falls under “obstruction” where I come from. But Chu is putting up some sort of fight, just enough to save Department face. However, the fact that he approved a restructuring of Solyndra’s debt that allowed two private investors to move ahead of taxpayers won’t look good for him, especially in light of his insisting that taxpayers still are first in line. He does keep pushing the AGW Koolaid™, though.
“When it comes to the clean energy race, America faces a simple choice: compete or accept defeat. I believe we can and must compete,” he said.
Compete?? COMPETE?? If there were anything to “compete” in, we wouldn’t need subsidies in the “clean energy” field, would we??
Does this man have any idea of the shitstorm coming his way?
French is French for …..
Huge cheers went up in UNESCO after delegates voted to approve the membership Monday. One shouted “Long Live Palestine!” in French.
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Palestinian officials are seeking full membership in the United Nations, but because that effort is expected to take some time, they are separately trying to get membership at Paris-based UNESCO.
U.S. lawmakers have threatened to withhold $80 million in aid from UNESCO, which is a rathole of corruption in itself. But the Fwench don’t care, as long as they can spite the Israelis and the Americans. The big bonus is that, if Palestinians get UN recognition, the Fwench can then start shipping the “undesirable” second-class citizenry of their country back to the Middle Eastern hellhole from where it spawned, thus helping Fwance re-establish its cultural hegemony. Because you know…the Palis were there first, along with unicorns.
The Fwench may have surrendering down to an artform, but they sure learned a thing or two from that little Austrian guy.
Another One May Have Bitten the Dust
Big news this morning?? Muammar Qaddafi may have been captured. Or killed. We don’t know, yet.
Conflicting reports emerged on Thursday that Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi has been captured or killed.
“Qaddafi is dead. He is absolutely dead… he was shot in both legs and in the head. The body will be arriving in Misrata soon,” media spokesman Abdullah Berrassali told Sky News.
Libyan TV channel Libya lil Ahrar, meanwhile, said the ousted dictator was in custody.
The conflicting reports come on the heels of Qaddafi’s hometown of Sirte falling to the Transitional National Council’s forces. It was the last stronghold of Quaddafi supporters. If indeed Quaddafi is captured or killed, that means that Libya is under rebel control, and isn’t that what our administration wanted when we sent troops to Libya? Because, you know, this administration wants to end the wars and all, so we sent troops and fought from the air to end the Iraq War, or some such thing. I get confused.
I’m not sure Qaddafi gone is a good thing, or a bad thing, politically speaking. Personally, I can’t wait to hear if the bastich is servicing Satan.
*Goes to read the news again*
Still awaiting confirmation, dammit. I hate waiting…
UPDATE: cellphone image of alleged capture below the fold (more…)
The New Civility, Part MCLXVIII
I have to admit, I am really enjoying the Occupy-Wall-Street-But-Over-At-Zucotti-Park protests. I am happy about them for two main reasons. First, they have every right to exercise their freedom of assembly and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. I find it hialrious that they are addressing Wall Street instead of Pennsylvania Avenue, but it’s their right. Second, by protesting, they reveal their true colors. For instance, take a look at this video:
Calling for a violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie. That’s just one clip. Now take what happened to our blogger friend, Snarky Basterd. Snarky has a Twitter account, and this is what he got as a response from an OWS protester:
If you had doubts about the so-called peaceful protest, they should be gone now. This is a threat of physical harm to any and all people of not just a certain “race”, but those who actually differ in opinion from the protester. Stalin talked this way. Mao talked this way. Hitler probably didn’t. He let his minions do the talking. But the really psychopathic thing of it all, is the protester himself. Not long after Snarky spread the tweet around, @MrHortonscycles changed his moniker. Like any female, I was overcome with curiosity, so I traced him to his new moniker, and found this:
Yes, he misspelled the “socialist” part. He claims that Twitter didn’t allow for that many characters, oblivious to the fact that he did use all the letters in the word, just in the wrong order. I laughed at first, because he has threats posted to pretty much everyone who calls him out. But then I sobered up to the fact that this guy actually believes he doesn’t say threatening things. That is far more dangerous, because he has no morals to guide his reasoning. His ilk will be happy to lay waste to anyone who gets in his way, as long as he gets his way. What he doesn’t understand is, he is the fodder the Left will use to get their way. He is nothing but a useful, idiotic, sacrificial sheep to the altar of Marxism.
He doesn’t seem to grasp that we are getting ready. We will not back down. And our version of “gun control” is to hit center mass.
Thanks also to Conservative Hideout 2.0 for the call to arms, as it were 
Definition of Irony?
Making the rounds, but I found it first at The Asylum:
If you want a good laugh, click to embiggenify.
I do wonder if the media, who tried to make this into an energizing movement along the lines of the TEA Party, will now realize that the only movement these people resemble, is a bowel one.
And as a palate cleanser….
Karma is Feeling Groovy
Oh yes…. Karma is quite the unrepentant bitch, and rightly so. Witness how she just gave Julian Assange a taste of his own medicide*:
The autobiography of Julian Assange is published today despite attempts by the WikiLeaks founder to suppress it after a bitter row with its publisher.
Oh, the rich, rich taste of that bastard’s tears!!
Actually, forget tasting them. Just go ahead and bathe in them.
“I have kept my own counsel about the matter until now,” he writes. “It will be difficult to keep anger out of this account, owing to the sheer level of malice and opportunism that has driven the case against me.”
Newsflash, you idiot: YOU brought this upon yourself. YOU were the one who insisted that EVERYTHING IN THE WORLD should be available to EVERYONE. YOU were the one who laughed at the concept of “privacy”. Now, you are making a mockery of yourself, pining for the same privacy that you felt no one and no country should ever have.
You wanted to play God on your terms, and forgot the other side of the coin, Assange. Welcome to Karma, and I hope you choke on that bitter pill.
*I speak Jive 
Update [ArmedGeek]: In honor of hilljohnny’s birthday, I present him with an array of asses.
What? Two is an “array”!
Democrats Choke on Weiner
I’m still laughing. What was considered a super, big time longshot became a reality:
Republican Wins House Race in New York, Seen as Obama Rebuke
It’s not that it was just a longshot. But for a complete political newbie to carry a district that is over 75% Democrat, and had not been held by a Republican since….. —I can’t count that far back. I think it’s about 90 years??— anyway, how can it NOT be considered a slap to Prez Obama? Only a dingbat would say otherwise, right??
“It’s a very difficult district for Democrats,” said Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz…(snip)
Like I said, a dingbat. Look, Debbie, when you have a Democrat running in a heavily Jewish Orthodox district come out and give support for the Ground Zero conquering piece of shit mosque, you have a problem. Add to that former mayor Ed Koch endorsing the Republican, and you should be ready for a shitstorm. You were so freakin’ confident that you only had former president Clinton and Governor Cuomo record special phone messages and labor union thugs come out for your candidate.
Face it, Deb: you failed. Now please, go eat a large serving of STFU.
Down, Do Be Do, Down, Down…
As y’all know, the firm Standard & Poor’s cut the federal credit rating from AAA to AA+. Now comes word that the Justice Department won’t take that laying down.
The Justice Department is investigating whether the Standard & Poor’s credit ratings agency improperly rated dozens of mortgage securities in the years leading up to the financial crisis, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
Ok, true, that comes from the the New York Times, so the gloating is palpable. And according to the “source”, the investigation began before the US was downgraded. But if so, then why the secrecy until now? Either way, this does look like the DoJ is retaliating in response to the downgrade. And it doesn’t help the fact that no one knows if the investigation is on all major ratings agencies, including Moody’s and Fitch, or just Standard and Poor’s.
In any case, this should prove to be interesting as it progresses. Standard and Poor’s doesn’t seem the type to back down easily.
A Quick Learner on Government Bureaucracy
All you need to know:
**Pythagorean theorem:…………………………………………..24 words.
**Lord’s prayer:……………………………………………………….66 words.
**Archimedes’ Principle:…………………………………………..67 words.
**Ten Commandments:………………………………………….179 words.
**Gettysburg address:……………………………………………286 words.
**Declaration of Independence:……………………………..1,300 words.
**US Constitution with 27 Amendments:…………………7,818 words.
**US Government regulations on sale of cabbage:…..26,911 words.
**Obamacare:…………………………………………….400,000 words.
Hat tip: Blutarskyy
It’s For the Children…
Like it or hate it, we all have to deal with the boondoggle that is No Child Left Behind. In simple terms, the law was enacted to help schools bring kids into math and reading proficiency standards by 2014, using testing each spring. If the school doesn’t have the required percentage meet the goal, the school fails.
Which translates to firing of teachers. Guess who doesn’t like that?
So what is the administration to do? They decide to give schools waivers.
The plan to offer waivers to all 50 states, as long as they meet other school reform requirements, comes at the request of President Barack Obama, [Education Secretary Arne] Duncan said. More details on the waivers will come in September, he said.
Hey, it worked for Obamacare, right??
Through the waivers, schools will get some relief from looming deadlines to meet testing goals as long as they agree to embrace other kinds of education reforms such as raising standards, helping teachers and principals improve, and focusing on fixing the lowest performing schools.
But these waivers do NOT state how high the standards should be met, the amount of improvement of teachers and administrators should reach, or the definition of “fixing” the lowest performing schools. You just have to show that you are doing something, anything. And usually that means hiring more staff, forming another task force, etc. According to Duncan, about 80% of schools are in danger of closing if these waivers are not sent out. And though some schools are about to face sanctions under the law, there is no accounting for that high estimate, even from education experts.
But hey, public schools are just too big to fail.
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