Category Archives: Evironment
Whistle While You Work
Bloomberg reports Solyndra’s boarded up factory was lavish and spa-like, complete with whistling robots.
More Savings
Among the savings on offer, is a jillion dollars by not fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. A few weeks ago a NASA scientist speculated that we could be attacked by aliens upset about global warming – really. So far, it hasn’t happened. More savings for you.
Guitar War
Maybe I pick on Obama too much but, sheeez. After his NLRB shuts down a Boeing plant in South Carolina and the 5000 jobs that go with it, his Justice Department raids the Gibson Guitar company. Gibson guitars are made in the USA. The frets are made of imported rosewood which may be illegal to harvest in India. Under the Lacy Act of 1900 it would be illegal to violate another country’s law. Except India isn’t complaining. In fact if Gibson exported its manufacturing to India and imported the finished guitars here there would be no problem!
Dig at Green Jobs
Turns out some stimulus jobs were actually more shovel ready than we thought. Solyndra, a solar energy company with half a billion in federal funding, was one of several to assume room temperature this week.
Nasa Needs a Ride Board
Having abandoned the Space Shuttle by the side of the galaxy, NASA relied on the kindness of Russians for transportation to the International Space Station. Bad move. While NASA minds contemplated the finer points of alien attack (not involving relatives of the president), a Russian Soyuz blew up, leaving the space station lost in space.
