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Home Front: Politix
Abercrombie leaves public meeting amid boos
Abercrombie signed Act 55, creating an appointed five-member Public Land Development Corporation that will decide the fate of development -- by circumventing county zoning laws -- on roughly 1.8 million acres of public lands.
And the Founders thought the States would be a bulwark against governmental over-reach - obviously didn't contemplate the Democratic Party.
Posted by: Mercutio || 09/20/2012 13:09 || Comments || Link || [336078 views] Top|| File under:


Tonopah Solar Energy loan, keeping it all in the family
Q: Did the Energy Department give a loan to an energy company connected to Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law?
A: Yes. The loan was awarded to Tonopah Solar Energy for a project in Nevada. Ron Pelosi was then a board member with a subsidiary of Pacific Corporate Group, an investment partner in Tonopah’s parent company.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/20/2012 00:00 || Comments || Link || [336067 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Tzedakah? I guess it depends on what side of the fence you're on.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/20/2012 5:31 Comments || Top||

#2  There are a lot of companies involved with this: Solar Reserve and ACS Cobra are two on the finance end. Those companies are, in turn partly owned by various holding companies, hedge funds, legacy asset corporations, etc. The construction is being done by mainline companies. The company got an essentially free easement from the Dept of Interior to use federal land for the site (although there was some cost to prepare the environmental documents and much of that was borne by the solar finance companies).

The project is a big step up from one completed back in the late 90s. That one was a 10MW (peak) plant which demonstrated the technical feasibility of using molten salt to store solar (from mirrors) energy. There have been no scaling problems reported yet but off course the project will not be complete until 2013. The Tonapah plant scales that up to 110 MW (peak). Nevada Energy has agreed (actually been coerced via various renewable/green laws)to buy the electricity from the plant. Although the peak electricity generated will be 110MW, the average will be about 30 MW. The electricity will cost about double or triple what a similar output coal or gas plant would cost depending on assumptions of discount rate, fuel, labor, etc.
Posted by: lord garth || 09/20/2012 9:52 Comments || Top||


-Election 2012
Obama regulations cost 20x admin’s estimate, annually
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/20/2012 14:16 || Comments || Link || [336116 views] Top|| File under:

#1  ObamaCare mandate tax is going to overwhelmingly impose itself upon members of the middle class, with an average penalty to the tune of $1,200.

And here in Virginia, one of the "Big O's" leading supporters Timothy Kaine said: 'I Would Be Open to a Proposal to Have Some Minimum Tax Level for Everyone'

Will these Democrats ever stop the "Tax and Spend" train they are on ?
Posted by: Au Auric || 09/20/2012 15:39 Comments || Top||

#2  Will these Democrats ever stop the "Tax and Spend" train they are on ?
Posted by Au Auric


Yes of course, and sooner than we may realize! Taxes as we know them will end when you relinquish your paycheck entirely and you are issued US Government Ration Stamps.

* The following link provides a sample of the wide range of products which will not be available for purchase using Government Ration Stamps.
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/20/2012 15:52 Comments || Top||

#3  I can't tell if that is fact or fiction Besoeker. And that is scary.
Posted by: DarthVader || 09/20/2012 16:08 Comments || Top||

#4  Will these Democrats ever stop the "Tax and Spend" train they are on ?

Yes. If they are voted out. The next big problem in Chicago is that the teacher's union pension fund is dry--nada dinero. Someone has been dipping in the till or the pensions are unsustainable or both. Public unions should never have become a way of life in the U.S. They are killing us.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/20/2012 18:41 Comments || Top||

#5  Math is hard......
Posted by: B.H. Obama || 09/20/2012 19:08 Comments || Top||

#6  Actually, making EVERYONE pay taxes is a good idea, even if it is a token half percent.

My take is that God is absolutely fair and just, so a flat rate tax of 10% on EVERYBODY would be manageable. Heck, Egypt was a world power for centuries, and had a flat tax of a fifth (20%). Problem is, such a simple scheme would do away with 80 to 90% of the IRS, and that simply won't do for some people.
Posted by: Ptah || 09/20/2012 20:53 Comments || Top||


The Obama You Don't Know
The Obama You Don't Know will not be a surprise to R-Burgers but it is a decent summary of some of the background of Barack Hussein Obama. For people who are not R-Burgers and don't follow politics, much of this might come as a surprise.

Mark Tapscott of The Washington Examiner has done a good job. What the MSM should have done prior to 2008.

The entire series of ten chapters is at the website.
Few if any of his predecessors took the oath of office with higher public hopes for his success than President Obama on Jan. 20, 2009.

Millions of Americans hailed his election as an end to partisanship, a renewal of the spirit of compromise and a reinvigoration of the nation's highest ideals at home and abroad.

Above all, as America's first black chief executive, Obama symbolized the healing of long-festering wounds that were the terrible national legacy of slavery, the Reconstruction Era and Jim Crow. We would be, finally, one nation.

But after nearly four years in office, Obama has become a sharply polarizing figure.

His admirers believe he deserves a special place alongside Wilson, the Roosevelts and LBJ as one of the architects of benevolent government.

His critics believe he is trying to remake America in the image of Europe's social democracies, replacing America's ethos of independence and individual enterprise with a welfare state inflamed by class divisions.

In an effort to get a clearer picture of Obama -- his shaping influences, his core beliefs, his political ambitions and his accomplishments -- The Washington Examiner conducted a four-month inquiry, interviewing dozens of his supporters and detractors in Chicago and elsewhere, and studying countless court transcripts, government reports and other official documents.

Over the years and in two autobiographies, Obama has presented himself to the world as many things, including radical community organizer, idealistic civil rights lawyer, dynamic reformer in the Illinois and U.S. senates, and, finally, the cool presidential voice of postpartisan hope and change.

With his air of reasonableness and moderation, he has projected a remarkably likable persona. Even in the midst of a historically dirty campaign for re-election, his likability numbers remain impressive, as seen in a recent AP-GFK Poll that found 53 percent of adults have a favorable view of him.

But beyond the spin and the polls, a starkly different picture emerges. It is a portrait of a man quite unlike his image, not a visionary reformer but rather a classic Chicago machine pol who thrives on rewarding himself and his friends with the spoils of public office, and who uses his position to punish his enemies.

Peter Schweizer captures this other Obama with a bracing statistic in his book "Throw Them All Out," published last year. In the Obama economic stimulus program's Department of Energy loans, companies owned and run by Obama contributors and friends, like Solyndra's George Kaiser, received $16.4 billion. Those not linked to the president got only $4.1 billion. The Energy Department is far from the only federal program in which favoritism has heavily influenced federal grants.

To paraphrase Tammany Hall's George Washington Plunkitt, Obama has seen his opportunities and taken them, over and over.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/20/2012 09:37 || Comments || Link || [336070 views] Top|| File under:

#1  George Kaiser, Obama bundler and Solyndra official, Harvard guy.

Chairman, BOK Financial
Source of Wealth: Oil & gas, banking
Residence: Tulsa, OK
Country of Citizenship: United States
Education: Bachelor of Arts / Science, Harvard University; Master of Business Administration, Harvard University
#33 Forbes 400
#88 Forbes Billionaires
#34 in United States
So, the left is all bent out of shape about Romney's money?

Posted by: JohnQC || 09/20/2012 9:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Rantburg readers knew.
Posted by: Iblis || 09/20/2012 11:41 Comments || Top||

#3  Yes R-Burgers and others did. However, I think there are many people who go to work everyday, try to raise their families, go to church, go to ball game with their kids, etc. that really didn't have the time to delve into Obama's background. The media certainly wasn't forthcoming. I think there are some Independents and some Democrats who would not support Obama and what he and his administration stands for if they were aware of him and the people surrounding him. They are not nice well-intentioned people.

For example, in Chapter 3, the following excerpt describes Obama's and the people around him Marxist notions:

. It encompassed a cradle-to-grave vision of providing for the material needs of the low-income families residing in the new housing, including their schools, child care, job training, medical coverage, clothing and food.

In turn, the residents would campaign and vote for the officials advocating the partnerships, adding significantly to their political power.

Left unstated was the underlying reality that politically connected developers who built the housing would profit handsomely and could be expected to gratefully give millions of dollars in campaign contributions to politicians like Obama who made it all possible.

Chicago thus became the proving ground for Obama's vision, which, according to LISC spokesman Joel Bookman, "really changed the direction of community development in Chicago and ultimately nationally."

It was an irresistible combination of money, politics and idealism that also offered endless opportunities for greed and tragic abuse of the poor.


I suspect many who are not Rantburgers would not vote for Obama if they read this Examiner story! This bunch was exploiting the poor for political power and money. All the BS about Moochelle and Barack being poor and driving an old car with rusted out floorboards was so much cow-pucky. Him being a man of the people who lived in the community was a perpetrated myth; Obama lived in luxury up in Hyde Park and commuted to the little people's neighborhood.
Posted by: JohnQC || 09/20/2012 15:11 Comments || Top||

#4  Its why the title community organizer was never defined by the media. To say the job is to secure a bloc of votes and in turn sell that bloc as a commodity does not really ring up as considered classic American vocation.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 09/20/2012 15:50 Comments || Top||

#5  Community Organizer aka Party Apparatchik.

Word of the day.
Don't be an Apparatchik!
Posted by: Besoeker || 09/20/2012 16:03 Comments || Top||

#6  "...in two autobiographies..."

Doesn't this sum up everything you need to know about this guy?
Posted by: European Conservative || 09/20/2012 17:53 Comments || Top||


Stop Barack
H/T Instapundit. New ad in Wisconsin
Posted by: Beavis || 09/20/2012 09:39 || Comments || Link || [336077 views] Top|| File under:

#1  "Paid for by Black Republican PAC"

Great Ad. Any connection to www.nationalblackrepublicans.com ?
Posted by: Au Auric || 09/20/2012 12:17 Comments || Top||

#2  My concern is election corruption. Why would the Hussein's DOJ intimdate Gallop Pole unless they want to use "Barack and Mitt are in a close race" as "evidence" that elections were fair in a "close" actual election count.

The polls are over sampling Democrats to avoicd DOJ intimidation. I think an election fix is in as well.
Posted by: Glusomble Brown5460 || 09/20/2012 13:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Families are getting hit hard in my area. Many people work in the coal industry. Stop Obama signs are more common than political signs in my area at this time.
Posted by: Dale || 09/20/2012 20:39 Comments || Top||



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Thu 2012-09-20
  Ex-Gitmo hard boy involved in consulate attack
Wed 2012-09-19
  Rally against sacrilege: Ten Lahore rioters injured in clash with police
Tue 2012-09-18
  U.S. military suspends joint patrols with Afghans
Mon 2012-09-17
  Libya arrests 50 after US envoy's killing
Sun 2012-09-16
  Yemeni official: DNA tests did not prove the killing of Al-Shihri
Sat 2012-09-15
  Al Qaeda in Yemen urges Muslims to kill U.S. diplomats over film
Fri 2012-09-14
  Pakistan orders anti-Islam video block on YouTube
Thu 2012-09-13
  Egyptian protesters, police continue to clash near U.S. Embassy
Wed 2012-09-12
  US Official Killed In Libya Prophet Protest
Tue 2012-09-11
  Somali election: Hassan Sheikh elected as president
Mon 2012-09-10
  Yemen says kills deputy regional head of al Qaeda
Sun 2012-09-09
  Three injured in blast at Indonesia ''bomb workshop''
Sat 2012-09-08
  Canada breaks off relations with Iran
Fri 2012-09-07
  Pakistan evicts Save the Children foreign staff
Thu 2012-09-06
  Drone Strike in Yemen Kills 5 'Qaida' Militants

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