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Sunday, August 21, 2011

Conservative on Target!, Praise Thee, Heroes, Weatherization, Solar, Recession & More

iPraise Thee, O LordiPraise Thee, O Lord: Laurie is calling the preliminary numbers that are coming in a “mind-blowing stat.” Three members of the Riverside, Calif.-based Harvest Crusade webcast tech team… were at a loss to quantify the increased viewership and simply exclaimed, “wow.” [Maybe He had something to do with the numbers? I will say that my twitter and blog reach numbers blow my mind. – JS]


OUTRAGEOUS! NYT Essay Rips 'Cult of The Uniform'...Says Soldiers Aren't 'Heroes: On the front page of the editorial section of the Sunday paper, The New York Times prominently featured a lengthy essay bemoaning Americans who put the military on a pedestal -- and suggests they may not really be heroes.


Government Weatherization: an exercise in Soviet style efficiency: The $20 million in taxpayer funds supported the Seattle Neighborhood WEB (Weatherize Every Building) Initiative. The program had lofty goals: Reduce carbon emissions by 71,000 metric tons; produce 2,000 “living wage green jobs”, retrofit 2,000 homes in lower income neighborhoods. More than a year later only three homes have been retrofitted and 14 jobs created ($1,428,571.40 per job).  Seattle’s unemployment rate is 9.3 percent, up .7 percent from May.
U.S. Government Loaning $500M for Solar Power Projects—IN INDIA! The U.S. Export-Import Bank, an independent agency of the federal government, says that it has $500 million in loans in the “pipeline” to fund new solar energy projects—in India. The $500 million in new loans will come on top of $75 million in financing that the Export-Import Bank has already provided this year for solar power projects in India.
PIMCO: Treasuries reflect likelihood of recession: Bill Gross, manager of the world's largest bond fund, said on Friday the decline in Treasury yields to 60-year lows reflect a high probability of recession in the United States.
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
”If you ever forget the LORD your God and follow other gods and worship and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely be destroyed. Like the nations the LORD destroyed before you, so you will be destroyed for not obeying the LORD your God.” ~ Deuteronomy 8:19-20 (NIV) [Secular humanism, statism’s guide and faith, has been declared a religion by the US Supreme Court several times. We are in big trouble! – JS]

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