Monday, April 01, 2013

Welsh hill farmers reel as melting snow reveals carcasses of ewes and lambs | UK news | The Guardian
Hill farmers in Wales face one of their worst crises in 60 years as the melting snow reveals the carcasses of thousands of heavily pregnant ewes and new-born lambs.
Fisker Flashback: Ray Lane Touts Obama As Greatest Venture Capitalist-In-Chief Using Solyndra as Evidence | Coyote Blog
You can't make this up. Ray Lane, the very nicely politically connected investor whose connections to Obama are often credited with Fisker scoring millions of taxpayer money, made a video several years ago praising Obama as a great new model of venture-capitalist-in-chief.

I can't believe any intelligent human being would thing that the right role for the President is to be a venture capitalist with taxpayer money, or that even if this were so that Obama would be the right person with the right skills to do it well, but I suppose trying to score hundreds of millions in taxpayer money changes your perspective.
Fisker Flashback: Karma Gets Worse Mileage Than An SUV | Coyote Blog
Even in all-electric mode, the Fisker Karma gets worse mileage than an SUV  (only a deeply flawed EPA MPGe rating, purposely designed to over-state electric car efficiency, hides this fact).
Fisker Considering Bankruptcy | Coyote Blog
What a surprise -- apparently forced to make their case to private investors now rather than just DOE bureaucrats whose main criteria is "did this company support President Obama in the last election", Fisker is having trouble raising money and may declare bankruptcy.
Hollywood’s Elite Whine About Costly Bureaucratic Environmental Rules - By Greg Pollowitz - Planet Gore - National Review Online
These libs don’t get the irony that it’s their political philosophy that put this bureaucratic nightmare in place to begin with.

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