Author: Dave

It looks like another Friend Of Obama (FOO) is having a little trouble with the law. Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) — A federal grand jury is investigating how a company that advised Jefferson County, Alabama, on bond deals that threaten to cause the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, did similar work in New Mexico after…

I have been trying to decide if the introduction to the next story should be the Mikado’s List Song or Santa Claus Is Coming To Town. So I’ve decided to do them both. Think of it as low culture and lower culture. Popular entertainments for the times. You will note the song from the Mikado…

There were about a dozen people in the church at the time. What is there about Palin that inspires such stupidity? Such hatred? Gateway Pundit has more plus links. Cross Posted at Power and Control

He was close to corrupt Daley. President-elect Barack Obama has never been close to Mr. Blagojevich. He has aligned with the Daley division of the fractured Democratic machine, while Mr. Blagojevich, chiefly through the sponsorship of his father-in-law, a powerful Chicago alderman, has been from that faction that has always resented the mayor’s good fortune…

So who owns the governor of Illinois? Earlier today, we reported on the developing pay-for-play scandal involving humiliated Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich which allegedly involved offer the SEIU the power to name Barack Obama’s replacement as Senator in return for a cushy job with the SEIU’s Change to Win coalition or a new SEIU-funded lobby…

Mexico is hurting. The war on the northern border is devastating the country. Five thousand, three hundred, and seventy-six people have been killed in Mexico’s drug war so far this year, double the number from last year and more than all the US troops killed in Iraq. Is this what victory looks like? That’s the…

Well you didn’t hear it here first. That would have been a June story at Politico. In a letter to the U.S. District judge who presided over his trial, Rezko, who was convicted this month of 16 corruption-related counts, including fraud and money laundering, called prosecutors “overzealous.” And he singled out what he said were…

It looks like Britain will be losing its electrical supply before too long. It was in July of this year that the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee – prop. Tim Yeo – told the government that it must set a deadline for coal-fired power stations to install technology massively to cut their emissions, or…

I got hit with some malware a couple of days ago specifically the virtumonde infection. I have Webroot Spy Sweeper which is supposedly top rated and it did not clean it out. Part of that may be because I have not had the funds to renew my subscription. So I went looking for something within…

It looks like the Sun’s magnetic field may control climate (which is average weather)and can be used to predict rainfall. ScienceDaily (Dec. 3, 2008) — The sun’s magnetic field may have a significant impact on weather and climatic parameters in Australia and other countries in the northern and southern hemispheres. According to a study in…

In this Google Tech Talk from about 28 February 2007 you can see Incoming Energy Secretary Steven Chu discussing what he knows about Bussard Fusion about 1 hour 1 minute and 10 seconds into the video. The rest of the talk is about alternative energy, power sources for the future, and how to run a…

A new energy czar has been picked by the incoming administration. Steven Chu, 60 years old, director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, will be nominated as secretary of energy, Democratic officials said Wednesday. The Smartest President Elect Ever™ appears intent on further hobbling the economy with more command and…

It looks like the unpopular auto company bail out is going to have a tough time passing in the current Congress. Republicans were preparing a strong fight against the aid plan in the Senate, not only taking on the Democrats but standing in open revolt against their party’s lame-duck president on the measure. The Republicans…

Bob Lutz the operating head of General Motors says if Congress requires the car companies to build small ultra fuel efficient vehicles they will have to be sold at a loss. Now that is a truly brilliant way to help car companies that are losing money. Leave it to Bob Lutz, GM’s voluble vice chairman,…

Television station KHQA reported that B. Obama met with Governor Blagojevich shortly after the election to discuss his replacement for the US Senate seat he was vacating. By Alexis Hunt – Saturday, November 08, 2008 at 9:48 p.m. QUINCY, IL — Now that Barack Obama will be moving to the White House, his seat in…

The land deal between Tony Rezko and B. Obama for his house in Hyde Park is explained by GOP Mom. It is rather complicated but the bottom line is that Rezko subsidized Obama’s purchase of the house and land giving Obama what amounted to at least a $130,000 discount. There are maps and pictures and…

Watch CBS Videos Online Start the clip and then close your eyes while you listen to Obama’s voice. Obama sounds shaky. In fact he sounds to me like a guy waiting for the other shoe to drop. Jake Tapper at his ABC News blog has a few words about Obama’s relationship with “Hot Rod” Blagojevich.…