Wait 'Til the Sun Shines, Nellie

Evergreen Solar of Massashusetts, the nation's third-largest solar panel manufacturer, has announced that it will permanently close its facility in Devens, Mass. and 'downsize" 800 "green jobs."
The good news is twofold:  Evergreen will continue to make high-quality, affordable solar panels, but will now make them in China where there are no restrictive taxation, zoning, labor, and environmental regulations; and secondly, Massachusetts taxpayers won't need to continue subsidizing the company's operations, toward which $43 million dollars has already been shoveled. Talk about your "shovel-ready jobs!"  I suppose the additional 800 folks on unemployment compensation will be cheaper in the long run for the taxpayers.

I just love it when a government tries to fix a business.

As a side note, the solar walkway lights I bought in August for 8 bucks each now only glow for about 15 minutes, from sunset at 5:30 until almost 6pm.  I guess all this global warming has drained the batteries. Or maybe it's that we don't get the same amount of direct sunlight as, say, Palm Springs or Phoenix in November through April.  Anyway, these Westinghouse brand solar lamps are as useless as  submarine screen doors.  Save yourself a few bucks and get low-voltage real lamps.  No matter what PGE charges, the plug-in lamps will be a bargain.
It all reminds me of Ronald Reagan, who said:  "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: 'I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.'"

Scientific Breakthroughs in American Industry

If you, like so many others, have any doubts that your tax dollar is being spent wisely, consider this documentation of exciting research being done at Chrysler after receiving their share of the massive "bailout"  and "economic stimulus:"

It is truly comforting to see, and to hear, the results of your trillion-dollar investment in American ingenuity.

Egypt, the Keystone

A simple glance at the map below reveals the importance of Egypt in the Muslim Brotherhood's stated objective of establishing a Muslim Caliphate throughout the world.  Their conquest of Egypt, being aided and abetted by the Obama administration, is central to the establishment of the Caliphate in northern Africa: Egypt, and its Suez Canal after  Tunisia, then Libya in the vise, Morocco, Lebanon, Turkey, followed by Spain and Portugal, France, then England, Italy, even Greece, like so many dominoes.  Did you know that the most common baby boy's name in England is "Mohammed?"  Think London won't fall to Islam's voracious hunger for worldwide dominance?  Gee, maybe we should ask Imam Rauf, or members of the M.B. here in America. That charlatan in the White House emanates all the symptoms of favoring establishment of the Caliphate, from his "Freudian slip" about his "Muslim faith, uhhhh, I mean Christian" to "the most beautiful sound I know of,"  the Muslim call to prayer to his embarrassing snub of Queen Elizabeth and subsequent kow-towing to Abdul Saud of Arabia, and frequent orations about America being a "post-Christian nation"  to his tacit endorsement of  Muhammad elBaradei, best known for being unable to find enriched uranium in either Iraq or Iran or a 500-pound gorilla in a locked room.

You do the math.

hat tip:  Townhall.com

 *The red shows the countries currently under, or at risk of becoming theocracies under Sharia law:
Remember that 80% of oil exported by Saudi Arabia, Iraq and the rest of OPEC MUST pass through the Suez Canal in order to reach Europe and  through the Strait of Gibralter to reach America.  And remember the Barbary pirates of Tripoli and their modus of operations.  Oh, yes, get ready for $7.00 gas and $10.00 bread, just for starters.

Waitin' Fo' My Gummint Check, So I Can't Go to Work Today.....

Dear Mr. President:

During my shift in the Emergency Room last night, I had the pleasure of evaluating a patient whose smile revealed an expensive shiny gold tooth, whose body was adorned with a wide assortment of elaborate and costly tattoos, who wore a very expensive brand of athletic shoes and who chatted on a new cellular telephone equipped with a popular musical ringtone.

While glancing over her patient chart, I happened to notice that her payer status was listed as "Medicaid!"  During my examination of her, the patient informed me that she smokes more than one costly pack of cigarettes every day and somehow still has money to buy pretzels and beer.

And yet, you and our Congress expect me to pay for this woman's health care? I contend that our nation's "health care crisis" is not the result of a shortage of quality hospitals, doctors nor nurses. Rather, it is the result of a "crisis of culture;" a culture in which it is perfectly acceptable to spend money on luxuries and vices while refusing to take care of one's self or, heaven forbid, purchase health insurance. It is a culture based in the irresponsible credo that "I can do whatever I want to because someone else will always take care of me".

Once you fix this "culture crisis" that rewards irresponsibility and dependency, you'll be amazed at how quickly our nation's health care difficulties will disappear.

Respectfully,

R. STARNER JONES, MD

Jackson, MS

"I WANNA BE LIKE MIKE...."

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