2000 new or saved green jobs for China

Great news for China! President Obama's green jobs program will be a shot in the arm for China's ailing economy. More than 2000 jobs will be "created or saved" in China because of a new contract between China's largest wind turbine manufacturer and the soon to be largest wind turbine development located on 36,000 acres in West Texas:

Clean tech has seen a boost as the U.S. pours government funding into renewable energy, and China looks set to reap much of the benefits. Latest example: a Chinese wind-turbine company has just become the exclusive supplier for one of the largest wind-farm developments in the U.S.

The Shenyang Power Group has signed on to supply 240 of its massive 2.5-megawatt wind turbines to a 36,000-acre development in West Texas. The Wall Street Journal reports that the wind farm is also slated to receive $1.5 billion in financing from the Export-Import Bank of China.

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This comes as the U.S. has increasingly out-sourced much of its wind turbine development. Less than a quarter of wind turbine components installed in the U.S. came from domestic production, and Europe currently holds the lion's share of turbine manufacturing. A Norwegian firm launched the world's first full-scale floating wind turbine this September.

As a reflection of this, just 15 percent of the 2,800 new jobs from the new wind-turbine development will take the form of U.S. jobs. The U.S. government has tried to help the nation's renewable energy industry with $500 million in grants -- but it will likely take a while for U.S. wind power manufacturers to play catch-up after struggling with an uneven market.

This will be fabulous news for the 10 to 15% of America's work force who are out of work.

NOT!!!

Golf is Hell

Investors.com has the very best Editorial Cartoonist in the country; Michael Ramirez.

Quote of the Day

Rush Limbaugh said it today:

"The economic heart of America's engine is its people; not Barack Obama. The intellectual heart of this nation is our people; not Barack Obama. And the last best hope of this nation is our people; not Barack Obama."

How to Scare the Hell out of a Leftist

Just show them this mask! It's guaranteed to have the same effect as a cross or a strand of garlic would have on a vampire; leftists will most certainly recoil at this sight!



Where else but Lucianne.com could you find such a scary mask?

Democrats Vote To Give ACORN Regulatory Authority Over Financial Institutions

I know what you're thinking; you're thinking that because of all the ACORN corruption which was caught on video from coast to coast by James O'Keefe and Hannah Giles that ACORN has been declared completely ineligible from future govt aid. You were thinking that, weren't you.

Well, what in the world were you thinking? The dems have voted to give ACORN regulatory authority over financial institutions! That's right friends! ACORN barely got a rap on the wrist for it's overt corruption. In fact, in leftist democrat parlance, the corruption probably enhanced their worthiness to receive a regulatory role in our financial institutions.

Read it for yourself and weep for this country:

WASHINGTON - During consideration of H.R. 3126, legislation to establish a Consumer Financial Protection Agency (CFPA), Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee voted to pass an amendment offered by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) that will make ACORN eligible to play a role in setting regulations for financial institutions.

The Waters amendment adds to the CFPA Oversight Board 5 representatives from the fields of "consumer protection, fair lending and civil rights, representatives of depository institutions that primarily serve underserved communities, or representatives of communities that have been significantly impacted by higher-priced mortgages" to join Federal banking regulators in advising the Director on the consistency of proposed regulations, and strategies and policies that the Director should undertake to enforce its rules.

By making representatives of ACORN and other consumer activist organizations eligible to serve on the Oversight Board, the amendment creates a potentially enormous government sanctioned conflict of interest. ACORN-type organizations will have an advisory role on regulating the very financial institutions from which they receive millions of dollars annually in direct corporate contributions and benefit from other financial partnerships and arrangements. These are the same organizations that pressured banks to make subprime mortgage loans and thus bear a major responsibility for the collapse of the housing market.

In light of recent evidence linking ACORN to possible criminal activity, Democrats took an unprecedented step today to give ACORN a potential role alongside bank regulators in overseeing financial institutions. This is contrary to recent actions taken by the Senate and House to block federal funds to ACORN.

A recent inquiry into bank funding of ACORN activities by three House Committees found that institutions that would be regulated by the CFPA have provided millions of dollars to the organization in the form of direct donations, lines of credit, cash, and other assets over the last 15 years.

The Waters amendment passed on a vote of 35-33.

Be sure to go to the above link and click on the link so you can see who voted for it and who voted against it.

Have you heard much about this on any news outlet?

Everything You Need to Know about Govt Run Health Care

Even after the president declared a national emergency because of the Swine Flu, Big Govt still is unable to deliver the vaccine to those who think they need it. Why would even unthinking people believe that nationalized health care would be more efficient than the simple distribution of a vaccine?

That's all you need to know to be able to decide whether or not Big Gov't is able to satisfactorily be in charge of your health care.

Can You Do This in Congress?

Hat tip to DRUDGE for this pic.

It is NOT a resume' enhancement when the democrat majority leader in the senate has to resort to praying. Would a republican be censured for striking such a prayerful pose? If so, one must wonder just who Senator Reid was praying to. Hmm...

With such tumult going on with the congressional democrats, I don't think this photo is going to get Sen. Reid any extra favor (although it might be an effort to reach out to the republicans).

The Socialist Mop

From the creative brilliance of S. Weasel.

He's so unpopular that...

Here's a good one from Jodi Miller and the news junkies at Big Hollywood & NewsBusters:

Today's Essential Read: Dismantling America by Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell succinctly lays out how President Obama and his unelected czars along with history's most left wing congress are dismantling America before our very eyes. Here are a few paragraphs:

Just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many "czars" appointed by the President, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent?

Did you think that another "czar" would be talking about restricting talk radio? That there would be plans afloat to subsidize newspapers-- that is, to create a situation where some newspapers' survival would depend on the government liking what they publish?

Did you imagine that anyone would even be talking about having a panel of so-called "experts" deciding who could and could not get life-saving medical treatments?

Scary as that is from a medical standpoint, it is also chilling from the standpoint of freedom. If you have a mother who needs a heart operation or a child with some dire medical condition, how free would you feel to speak out against an administration that has the power to make life and death decisions about your loved ones?

Does any of this sound like America?

How about a federal agency giving school children material to enlist them on the side of the president? Merely being assigned to sing his praises in class is apparently not enough.

How much of America would be left if the federal government continued on this path? President Obama has already floated the idea of a national police force, something we have done without for more than two centuries.

We already have local police forces all across the country and military forces for national defense, as well as the FBI for federal crimes and the National Guard for local emergencies. What would be the role of a national police force created by Barack Obama, with all its leaders appointed by him? It would seem more like the brown shirts of dictators than like anything American.

How far the President will go depends of course on how much resistance he meets. But the direction in which he is trying to go tells us more than all his rhetoric or media spin.

Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to "change the United States of America," the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles and the people of this country.

This is an important piece. Please hit the above link and read the rest of Dr. Sowell's article.

Worthless Watchdogs

Hat tip to the always on top of it news junkies at Lucianne.com.

Michael Fumento: The swine flu pandemic is purely political

I heard Michael Fumento on the Dennis Prager show today talking about the "dreaded" swine flu. It was no surprise to me that he said it was a contrived political mechanism to panic people into demanding Big Govt do something...ANYthing to save us. When will the ignorant masses see the light? But I digress...

Here are a couple of the money paragraphs from Fumento's latest piece on the swine flu which we've been dutifully instructed to call the H1N1:

As evidence continues to mount that swine flu is more of a piglet than a raging razorback, why isn’t curiosity mounting as to why the World Health Organization declared it a pandemic? And definitions aside, why does the agency continue to insist we’re going to get hammered? The answers have far less to do with world health than with redistribution of world wealth.

Medically, the pandemic moniker is unjustifiable. When the sacrosanct World Health Organization (WHO) made its official declaration in June, we were 11 weeks into the outbreak, and swine flu had only killed 144 people worldwide — the same number who die of seasonal flu worldwide every few hours. The mildest pandemics of the 20th century killed at least a million people worldwide. And even after six months, swine flu has killed about as many people as the seasonal flu does every six days.

So how could WHO make such an outrageous claim?

Simple. It rewrote the definition of "pandemic."

A previous official definition (and widely used unofficial one) required “simultaneous epidemics worldwide with enormous numbers of deaths and illness.” Severity — that is, the number — is crucial, because seasonal flu always causes worldwide simultaneous epidemics. But one promulgated in April just days before the announcement of the swine flu outbreak, simply eliminated severity as a factor.

That’s also how we can have a "pandemic" when six months of epidemiological data show swine flu to be far milder than the seasonal variety. New York City statistics show it to be perhaps a 10th as lethal.

Okay, now go to his website and read the rest of his piece and don't be taken in by all the crappola Big Govt spews forth. You just can't believe any of it because they have ulterior motives...sinister ulterior motives!

7 Lies in 2 Minutes

Hat tip to Mike at Let's Think About That for this one:

How to Spot An Emotional Vampire

I've been thinking about narcissism for the last few months and have read some good articles on the subject. Tonight I stumbled upon this Narcissism Symptoms Checklist, which will help you spot an emotional vampire. Think you might know a narcissist? Ya think there might be some of them in government? Ya think one might be in the White House?

Here's an official check list:

THE SMARTEST, MOST TALENTED, ALL-AROUND BEST PERSON IN THE WORLD TEST:

True or false? Score one point for each true answer.

1. THIS PERSON HAS ACHIEVED MORE THAN MOST PEOPLE HIS OR HER AGE.

2. THIS PERSON IS FIRMLY CONVINCED THAT HE OR SHE IS BETTER, SMARTER, OR MORE TALENTED THAN OTHER PEOPLE.

3. THIS PERSON LOVES COMPETITION, BUT IS A POOR LOSER.

4. THIS PERSON HAS FANTASIES OF DOING SOMETHING GREAT OR BEING FAMOUS, AND OFTEN EXPECTS TO BE TREATED AS IF THESE FANTASIES HAD ALREADY COME TRUE.

5. THIS PERSON HAS VERY LITTLE INTEREST IN WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE THINKING OR FEELING, UNLESS HE OR SHE WANTS SOMETHING FROM THEM.

6. THIS PERSON IS A NAME DROPPER.

7. TO THIS PERSON IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO LIVE IN THE RIGHT PLACE AND ASSOCIATE WITH THE RIGHT PEOPLE.

8. THIS PERSON TAKES ADVANTAGE OF OTHER PEOPLE TO ACHIEVE HIS OR HER OWN GOALS.

9. THIS PERSON USUALLY MANAGES TO BE IN A CATEGORY BY HIM OR HERSELF.

10. THIS PERSON OFTEN FEELS PUT UPON WHEN ASKED TO TAKE CARE OF HIS OR HER RESPONSIBILITIES TO FAMILY, FRIENDS, OR WORK GROUP.

11. THIS PERSON REGULARLY DISREGARDS RULES OR EXPECTS THEM TO BE CHANGED BECAUSE HE OR SHE IS IN SOME WAY SPECIAL.

12. THIS PERSON BECOMES IRRITATED WHEN OTHER PEOPLE DON'T AUTOMATICALLY DO WHAT HE OR SHE WANTS THEM TO DO, EVEN WHEN THEY HAVE A GOOD REASON FOR NOT COMPLYING.

13. THIS PERSON REVIEWS SPORTS, ART, AND LITERATURE BY TELLING YOU WHAT HE OR SHE WOULD HAVE DONE INSTEAD.

14. THIS PERSON THINKS MOST CRITICISMS OF HIM OR HER ARE MOTIVATED BY JEALOUSY.

15. THIS PERSON REGARDS ANYTHING SHORT OF WORSHIP TO BE REJECTION.

16. THIS PERSON SUFFERS FROM A CONGENITAL INABILITY TO RECOGNIZE HIS OR HER OWN MISTAKES. ON THE RARE OCCASIONS THAT THIS PERSON DOES RECOGNIZE A MISTAKE, EVEN THE SLIGHTEST ERROR CAN PRECIPITATE A MAJOR DEPRESSION.

17. THIS PERSON OFTEN EXPLAINS WHY PEOPLE WHO ARE BETTER KNOWN THAN HE OR SHE IS NOT REALLY ALL THAT GREAT.

18. THIS PERSON OFTEN COMPLAINS OF BEING MISTREATED OR MISUNDERSTOOD.

19. PEOPLE EITHER LOVE OR HATE THIS PERSON.

20. DESPITE THIS PERSON'S OVERLY HIGH OPINION OF HIM OR HERSELF, HE OR SHE IS REALLY QUITE INTELLIGENT AND TALENTED.

Scoring: Five or more true answers qualifies the person as a Narcissistic Emotional Vampire, though not necessarily for a diagnosis of Narcissistic Personality. If the person scores higher than ten, and is not a member of the royal family, be careful that you aren't mistaken for one of the servants.

By ALBERT J. BERNSTEIN, Ph.D.

Not all politicians are creeps

Hear what Michigan Congressman Mike Rogers has to say about Obamacare:

Will Obama Sign our Sovereignty Away in Copenhagen?

Chances are you probably haven't heard all that much about the upcoming meeting in Copenhagen where President Obama will, no doubt, sign a treaty on climate change. Here's what The Future blog has to say about it:

This upcoming December, U.S. President Barack Obama is scheduled to sign a treaty on climate change in Copenhagen, Denmark. The former science adviser to British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher says that he has read the treaty and that it explicitly says that a world government is going to be created. Is Barack Obama about to blatantly violate the U.S. Constitution by signing a document that gives up U.S. sovereignty without any debate or input from the people of the United States?

For a long time the global elite have viewed the threat of "global warming" as a way to get all the nations of the world to agree to increased "global governance". This new treaty takes this wacky global environmental agenda to frightening new levels.

On October 14th, Lord Christopher Monckton gave a presentation at Bethel College in St. Paul, Minnesota during which he issued a dire warning regarding this "United Nations Climate Change Treaty". An excerpt of a portion of his remarks as reported by Canada Free Press is posted below. Remember, he is a former member of the Thatcher administration in the U.K. Monckton is absolutely convinced from his reading of this treaty that it says that a world government will be created.....

Make haste to read the rest of the article linked above.

Here is the YouTube video of Lord Monckton's plea to Americans. Please watch it!

Quote for the Spirit of our Times

George Orwell said it:

“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.”

El Rushbo Profundity of the Day

Rush succinctly summed up the entire global warming scam in just a few sentences yesterday:

"All mammals exhale carbon dioxide, but yet somehow only man's carbon dioxide is destroying the planet; only man, particularly capitalist man. Now, why does the left think this?"

The leftist point of view is that animals are good, man is bad. But not all men are bad. It is those of the Judeao-Christian persuasion/heritage who are particularly bad because we worship the Creator God who wouldn't have made man or beasts which exhaled destructive gases. It is those who know God who are quickly able to see the folly in vacuous whacked out environmental policies which only serve to steal our personal property and distribute it to 3d and 4th world nations.

Which is why the left hates the Judeao-Christian God and seeks to remove Him from all of our institutions:

"The first thing they do in any communist country is wipe God and religion out of everybody's mind. The left, in order to ultimately succeed, has to end our understanding of God's existence and purpose."

Mark Levin Quote of the Day

Today Mark Levin rightly said:

The most extreme person in the Obama administration is ... Obama

Doug Giles: "10 Reasons Why Pastors Avoid the Culture War"

If you love Ann Coulter, you'll love Doug Giles. His most recent column is at Breitbart's Big Hollywood and it's titled, 10 Reasons Why Pastors Avoid the Culture War and it's brilliant. Whether or not you're a church goer, you should be able to see the light when he shines it on the pussilanymous pastors across the fruited plain.

This is really an important piece, especially if you attend a church which shys away from involvement in politics and community affairs.

Here are a few of the money paragraphs:

1. Fear of Man: If you purport to be a man of God then your regard for God and His opinion must trump the trepidation of the creature God created from spit and mud. Come on, man of God, don’t fear the crowd . . . we’re peons with cell phones who’ll shoot Botox into our foreheads. We’re weird and fickle weather vanes of what’s en vogue. You’ve got to lead us. Therefore, move into the Moses mode and command us to be and do what is holy, just and good. The grinning, mild, subtle Oprah approach doesn’t seem to be stemming the current flood of cultural filth.

2. Ignorance: Most people are not bold in areas in which they are ignorant . . . always excepting Janeane Garofalo, of course. I know keeping up with all the pressing political issues is maddening, but that’s life, brother, and if you want to be a voice in society and not just an echo, you have got to be in the know. Staying briefed is par for the course for the hardy world changer.

3. Division: Y’know, I hate the current non-essential divisions in the church as much as the next acerbic Christian columnist. Squabbling over the color of the carpet, who’ll play the organ next Sunday or who is the Beast of Revelation, is stupidity squared. That being said, there’s a time and place for a holy throw-down and an ecclesiastical split from political policies and parties. For a minister to seek unity with secularists when they are trashing and rewriting Scripture with impunity is to side with vice and to allow darkness to succeed.

4. Last Days Madness: Many ministers do not get involved in political issues because they believe that “it simply doesn’t matter” since “the end has come.” These defeatists believe that any change in the jet stream, war, earthquakes, a warming globe, the success of a corrupt politician—or even a new Shakira video—are “proof” that God is getting really, really ticked off and that His only recourse is to have Christ physically return and kick some major butt. Attempting to right culture is, in the defeatists’ eyes, equivalent to polishing brass on a sinking ship; therefore, they are content to simply pass out gospel tracts, tramp from Christian rock concert to Christian rock concert, eat fatty foods and stare at Christian TV.

There are 6 more knock-out points that you need to see in Giles' column. Your pastor needs to see them too. Why not pass this piece along to him and all your Christian friends. I passed this along to one of my favorite pastors, not because he needed it but because he's one of the few pastor's I know that is out there telling it like it is (without getting in any body's face).

Be sure to read the rest of Giles' piece. He's always entertaining and never uninformed, and he has no problem at all getting in any one's face.

By the way, you can hear my favorite pastor, Ron Dart, at Born To Win Radio Archives or you can scroll down on the right hand column of this blog and click on the BTW icon to hear him.

Christians and Christian pastors everywhere need to get with the program and start "standing in the gap" with the courage and effectiveness of those in Big Talk Radio. Right now, Talk Radio is the only entity "standing in the gap" between right and wrong. Deal with it!

Scarily, the Bible warns us that if we can't handle the job he has commissioned us to do, He can and may have to raise up stones to do what He would have us do.

Doug Giles might ask, "do we have the 'stones' to do what God wants us to do?' or is He going to have to resort to plan B?

Barack Obama's Top 10 broken promises.

You have to go outside our borders to get accurate news about our president and his administration in these days of the propaganda press. Obama's top 10 broken promises are found in The Telegraph:

1.PROMISE BROKEN. Mr Obama said he would "not sign any non-emergency bill without giving the American public an opportunity to review and comment on the White House website for five days". But the "sunlight before signing" promise has already fallen by the wayside with Mr Obama signing three major bills without public scrutiny.

2.PROMISE BROKEN. Mr Obama repeatedly said he would negotiate health care reform in televised sessions broadcast on C-SPAN, the public service network. Instead, he his approach has been no different from his predecessors, holding talks behind closed doors at the White House and Congress.

3.PROMISE BROKEN. Mr Obama solemnly pledged that "no political appointees in an Obama-Biden administration will be permitted to work on regulations or contracts directly and substantially related to their prior employer for two years". In practice, Mr Obama has granted several waivers to this rule, allowing lobbyists to serve in the top reaches of his administration.

I won't steal all their thunder, but make it a point to hit the link and see the rest of the list.

"And the winner is...."

Hat tip to the brilliant Michael Ramirez and Investors.com for this.

George Washington Quote of the Day

From the Father of our country:

It is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible.

Reagan quote of the Day

The beloved Ronald Reagan so wisely stated:

"Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."

I soooooo miss the Great Ronaldus Magnus!

It's even coming to the point that I miss George Bush, with all of his needless govt growth and spending. It's nearing the time that I'm beginning to miss the amoral Bill Clinton, and I fear we are rapidly approaching the point when the worst president of all time, the anti-Semitic Jimmy Carter, will look good in comparison to Barack Hussein Obama (Umm umm umm).

What an unbelievable scenario!

UPDATE: Obama Has the Inside Track on Becoming Worst President Ever

Prager University: The American Trinity

Dennis Prager is a national treasure. His latest 5 minute installment of Prager University features one of his most astute observations about the uniqueness of America. You won't get this information anywhere else as succinctly as Prager presents it.

Most people may not even know what the American Trinity is, but it's what made America great...and unique among nations. Enjoy!



Sadly, it seems that our current president may not even believe in any of the components of this trinity of values which have been our national ballast. The dismissal of these values will be the end of America as we have known it.

Sarah Palin's "Going Rogue" Already a Best Seller!

Sarah Palin's new book, Going Rogue, won't be out for at least 6 weeks but it's already the #1 best seller at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.

Yesterday, the WSJ ran an article titled, Sarah Palin, a Soon-to-Be Publishing Phenom:

Sarah Palin may no longer be governor of Alaska, but she's certainly destined to become a best-selling author. HarperCollins, her publisher, has announced the print-run of her memoir will be a staggering 1.5 million copies -- equal to the print-run of Senator Ted Kennedy's posthumous autobiography published this month. Publishing sources tell me that such a giant run is only ordered up when there is clear evidence from booksellers and surveys of massive interest in a book.

The book, which will be published on November 17, was a crash project. Ms. Palin actually moved temporarily to San Diego after she resigned the governorship in July so she could be close to her collaborator, Lynn Vincent. I bumped into Ms. Vincent, a former editor at the Christian-oriented World magazine, in New York a few weeks ago, where she had parked herself in a hotel close to the offices of HarperCollins while working on the book's final edits.

This is going to be so much fun to watch! Let the caterwauling begin!