Now that 1-in-6 Floridians depend on food stamps and true unemployment is hovering above 20%, rest assured our Communist government overlords have made job creation their #1 priority — for themselves.
Federal Workers Are 17th Highest Compensated Employees In The Nation
(The American via Doug Ross) CNN Money has a nice survey of the 25 highest-paying companies in the country, outlining the average total compensation per employee in each one. According to CNN, the closest match to federal employment is Microsoft, whose average employee compensation is $132,023 per year, making it the 17th highest-paying company in the country.
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This article – published on the same day – juxtaposes rather nicely…
Federal Workers Owe $3.4 Billion In Back Taxes
(Pantagraph) President Barack Obama has preached that all Americans should pay their fair share in taxes, but a government report finds that tens of thousands of federal employees — from staffers in Congress to federal agencies and even Obama’s executive office — collectively owe the government billions in back taxes.
Data from the Internal Revenue Service found that more than 279,000 federal employees and retirees owed $3.4 billion in back income taxes as of Sept. 30, 2010.
The data showed that 467 employees of the House of Representatives, or about 4.2 percent of the workforce, owed more than $8.5 million. In the Senate, 217 employees, or about 3 percent of the workforce, owed $2.13 million.
Obama’s staff was not immune, either, with 36 people in Obama’s executive office of nearly 1,800 workers — about 2 percent — owing the government $833,970 in back taxes.
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The good news is, the total amount government employees owe in back taxes is down slightly from September 2009, when more than 282,000 federal workers owed $3.3 billion in taxes.
*Whew!*
May I encourage readers to digest the parable of, ‘The Ant And The Grasshopper’: HERE
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ObamaNation – Florida park to become tent city for homeless population: HERE
US Unemployment 20%+: HERE
False unemployment and phony jobs claim: HERE
Media fall for phony ‘jobs’ claim: HERE
Ben Bernanke tells everyone at neighborhood bar how, ‘screwed US economy really is’: HERE
Will ignorance lead to a second term for the King of Fools?: HERE
Obama, ‘I will not rest until I finish another round of golf’: HERE
‘On the twelfth day of Christmas Obama gave to me…’: HERE
Bailout Payback? Realtors double-counting homes sales for last 5 years: HERE
Where’d all the stimulus money go?: HERE and HERE
Economic news from Big Brother, ‘The recession is over!’: HERE
1.9 Million fewer jobs since ‘recession ended back in 2009′: HERE
The Ant and the Grasshopper parable: HERE
h/t: Robert Fine
‘Rrrraaacist!’ I know, I know. Eraserhead?
Fresh off the ‘green energy’ stimulus rotation we discover another bumper crop of Obama-laced bankruptcies — on the same day, I might add, our God of failed ‘green energy’ announced more stimulus for ‘green energy’ companies.
God Of ‘Green Energy’ Bestows $118 Million In Taxpayer Funds Upon Another Bankrupt ‘Green Energy’ Firm
(Fox) The parent company of an electric car battery maker that received a $118 million grant from the Obama administration filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday.
New York-based Ener1 said it has been affected by competition from China and other countries.
Ener1 subsidiary EnerDel received a $118 million stimulus grant from the Energy Department in 2009, and Vice President Joe Biden visited the company’s new battery plant in Indiana last year.
Ener1 is the third company to seek bankruptcy protection after receiving assistance from the Energy Department under the economic stimulus law. California solar panel maker Solyndra Inc. and Beacon Power, a Massachusetts energy-storage firm, declared bankruptcy last year. Solyndra received a $528 million federal loan, while Beacon Power got a $43 million loan guarantee.
Solyndra, of Fremont, Calif., was the first renewable-energy company to receive a loan guarantee under the 2009 stimulus law, and the Obama administration frequently touted it as a model for its clean energy program.
Since then, the company’s implosion and revelations that the administration hurried a review of the loan in time for a 2009 groundbreaking has become an embarrassment for President Barack Obama and a rallying cry for GOP critics of the administration’s green energy program.
The chairman of a House subcommittee that is investigating Solyndra said the latest bankruptcy showed that the administration’s clean energy program has failed.
“Unfortunately, you can now add Ener1 to the growing list of failed companies that went belly up after hundreds of millions of dollars in administration backing,” said Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla.
“One bankruptcy may be a fluke, two could be coincidence, but three is a trend,” Stearns said. “Our investigation continues, and we are working to ensure taxpayers are never again stuck paying hundreds of millions of dollars because of the administration’s risky bets.”
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Meanwhile, on the same day back in Aurora, CO…
The God Of ‘Green Energy’ Promises More Taxpayer Funds For ‘Green Energy’
(Denver Post) In his speech at Buckley Air Force Base in Aurora on Thursday, Obama repeated the goal he set in his State of the Union address — 10 gigawatts of renewable-energy generation on public land.
Yet even as the Obama administration is approving projects, the federal financing programs that are key to their construction are fading.
“Congress needs to act,” Obama told about 400 invited guests gathered in a spare hangar. “They need to pass clean-energy tax credits.”
Michelle Obama – Huge windmill fan. Huge.
A U.S. Treasury Department loan and grant program ended in December, a production tax credit for wind farms runs out this year and a similar credit for solar is set to end in 2013.
“We need Congress to move on clean energy,” said former Gov. Bill Ritter, now director of the Center for the New Energy Economy at Colorado State University.
“But in an election year, I’m hearing that there is little chance,” Ritter said after the speech.
The administration is well on the way to meeting his federal-lands target with approximately 27 wind, solar and geothermal projects already approved and 17 projects on the 2012 federal priority list.
“There are enough projects approved and in development,” said Alan Quick, a spokesman for the Bureau of Land Management, which approves federal leases for energy projects.
Still, energy analysts and a wind industry spokeswoman caution that without financial supports, installations will falter.
‘Without financial supports, installations will falter’?! Hey dummy, they’re failing with ‘financial support!’
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DictatorSpeak – Obama, ‘The idea of doing things on my own is very tempting’: HERE
Solyndra ‘Green’ executive: $100,000+ in Obama donations and 20+ White House trips: HERE
Obama seeks $53 billion to fund ‘secretly’ bailed out GE for high-speed rail: HERE
Chevy Volt fires: Feds stop investigating themselves: HERE
Fahrvergnügen – Chevy Volt, ‘The People’s Car’: HERE
Wow! 281 Chevy Volts sold just last month – thank you Mr. Obama!: HERE
*hitty *hitty Bang Bang: HERE
GM recalls 154,000 Chevys: HERE
Bankrupt-Bailed-Out-Government-Owned-Tax-Free-Overseas-Job-Outsourcing GE Tells American Business Owners, ‘Stop Complaining About Big Government’: HERE
Blah, blah, blah…: HERE
This will be the last episode of my ‘Liberal College Girl Knows Everything‘ series. Appreciate your patience. Just too dog gone easy…
Liberal College Girl Knows Everything About Everything – Part Deux: HERE
Liberal College Girl Knows Everything About Everything – Part Un: HERE
Audio failure.
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Obama kicks door open: HERE
Obama loses his temper, again: HERE
Hat Tip: Moonbattery
Thanks for linking!: VodkaPundit, Moonbattery, I Own The World, Doug Ross, and Larwyn’s Linx.
Despite Government Motors sponsoring Communist propaganda, despite the Chevy Volt costing taxpayers $250k per vehicle to produce, despite Big Government purchasing 1-in-every-4 hybrids sold, despite taxpayers losing $9 billion on GM’s IPO loss last year, despite Americans being forced to shell out an additional $7,500 worth of tax and ‘clean-car’ incentives for every Volt purchased, despite GMs’ $50 billion bailout, despite bankrupt GM distributing manager bonuses up to 50% of their salaries, despite GM spending $4 million on lobbyists in just 3 months due to horrible Volt sales, despite GM covering corporate transgender surgeries, despite perfectly timed hype from Motor Trend naming the government-subsidized Chevy Volt as ‘Car of the Year’ without a single Volt ever being sold, despite Chevy Volts randomly catching fire, despite…
Well, despite all that, it’s best we ignore America’s ballooning culture of corruption. For our children’s sake.
Lucky for us, Government Mafia, the engineers of this train wreck are unimpeachable experts at derailing anything that resembles an actual investigation; Solyndra, Project Gunrunner, National Board of Realtors, GE, Pigford, Petrobras, BP, …
Chevy Volt Fires: Government Stops Investigating Itself
(Bloomberg) U.S. regulators ended an investigation into why Chevrolet Volt electric cars caught fire, and said electric vehicles do not pose a greater risk of fire.
The conclusion by the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration came two weeks after General Motors Co. (GM) told owners to bring the vehicles to dealerships for repair.
“Based on the available data, NHTSA does not believe that Chevy Volts or other electric vehicles pose a greater risk of fire than gasoline-powered vehicles,” the agency said in an e- mailed statement today.
The government started investigating the Volt after a side- impact crash test in May led to a fire three weeks later. During that test, the lithium-ion battery pack broke open and coolant leaked into the battery. When the car was physically rotated as part of the test, more coolant leaked into a circuit board, leading to a fire. NHTSA replicated the fire in November and started an official probe Nov. 25.
“GM is proud of the technological innovation the Volt represents,” Greg Martin, a GM spokesman, said today in an e- mailed statement. “We appreciate the confidence our Volt customers continued to provide during the investigation.”
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Nothing to see here folks. Now, anyone like candy?
Feds Announce $1,500 Incentive For California Chevy Volt Buyers
(LA Times) General Motors Co. plans to bring a special version of the Chevrolet Volt to the California market that will qualify the plug-in hybrid sedan for a $1,500 state rebate and a coveted carpool lane sticker.
The Volt, which the automaker has made the poster child for its environmental credentials, has sold slower in California than its all-electric rival, the Nissan Leaf — in part because it previously did not qualify as a vehicle solo drivers could use in the state’s network of time-saving carpool lanes.
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URGENT : GM Updates Chevy Volt Manual
Preparing Your Garage For A Chevy Volt
(via Doug Ross) Electric cars might save you money at the pump, but they sure don’t save you time filling up. A typical electric car… takes upwards of 20 hours to recharge a fully drained battery when using an standard 120-volt outlet. While this might not be a problem for those looking to buy a second car for occasional outings, it certainly won’t cut it if an electric car is meant to be your primary vehicle.
In order to achieve a quicker charge, you’ll need to hire an electrician to install a 240-volt, 40-amp line that connects directly to the circuit breaker, a hookup similar to the one you might have for an electric oven or clothes dryer. With the increase in voltage, you can cut your charging time down to seven hours for a Nissan LEAF and four hours for the Chevy Volt, which means an overnight charge makes it a more practical purchase for daily use.
Super-fast charging stations capable of pumping out 480 volts are already on the market, and can recharge a car in 30 minutes or less. But these souped-up charging stations are currently for commercial use only because most homes can’t handle the kind of voltage and amperage required, at least not without some major rewiring of the power grid.
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Fahrvergnügen – Chevy Volt, ‘The People’s Car’: HERE
Wow! 281 Chevy Volts sold just last month – thank you Mr. Obama!: HERE
*hitty *hitty Bang Bang: HERE
GM recalls 154,000 Chevys: HERE
Taxpayers – $7,500 on the hook for every Chevy Volt sold: HERE
Obama administration bought 1-in-4 GM hybrids sold: HERE
Buy a Prius, kill a Mexican: HERE
Boldface lies about GM service and warranties: HERE
Taxpayer funded Communist supporting GM pushes for higher gas tax: HERE
GM spend $4 million in 3 months on lobbyists: HERE
GM covers ladyboy transgender surgeries: HERE
Bankrupt GM and Chrysler give managers big bonuses – up to 50% – after taxpayer funded bailouts: HERE
Cash For Clunkers II – ‘Charging America Forward’: HERE
Mainstream media publishes another GM press release as ‘news’ — Government Motors claims ‘chocolate rations’ are up: HERE
GM’s press release propaganda: Tuesday March 1, 2011
Obama’s Playbook – published by 1940′s General Motors: HERE
Our nation cannot survive treason from within: HERE
Our remorseless deal-making Congress – where policy goes to the highest bidder.
It’s Time For A No Confidence Induced Change In Leadership
(RS) It is time to replace the GOP leadership in both Houses of Congress as both Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell have proven once again that they are unable to deal with Obama and lead the Party. Again and again, even when in positions of strength, they get sucked into failed negotiations and compromises with the Democrats and deals they sell as wins for our side are handed back to us with a smirk and a laugh by the President as he violates our Constitution and his own promises and sticks a knife in the backs of the American people and gives it a hearty twist to boot. The President is going to add another $1.2 trillion dollars of debt on the backs of the People and has killed the desperately needed jobs and energy cost relief that the Keystone XL pipeline would have provided the American people. He’s actually doing a better job helping the economy of China than he is here at home where millions of our own citizens are suffering. Wake up America before it’s too late.
US Debt rises $162 billion in 3 days: HERE
Boehner cuts $38.5 billion budget ‘deal’ — Are you kidding me?: HERE
Debt deal?! But compromise is what got us into this mess: HERE
Ben Bernanke interrogated: HERE
Obama, ‘It would be so much easier to be the president of China’: HERE
US Debt Clock in real time: HERE
US Government is bankrupt: HERE
Bankruptcy declaration for states sought — QUIETLY: HERE
Obama, ‘I’d like to work my way around Congress’: HERE
DictatorSpeak – Obama, ‘The idea of doing things on my own is very tempting’: HERE
h/t: Robert Fine
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Couldn’t resist making a few of my own. Endless possibilities…
‘Hold me!’
America’s SS (Schutzstaffel) – Planned Parenthood – and their supporters were responsible for the extermination of 329,445 babies last year. In other words, every 3 years America will have exterminated the same number of would-be children that were killed during the entire Holocaust — a procedure Barack Hussein Obama is committed to protect.
Considering that a total of 48,589,993 Americans have been exterminated since 1973, I question the liberal ethic capable of rationalizing human slaughter – the condoned massacre of 48.5 million – while thumbing its nose at ‘those evil Germans of WWII’.
Global Holocaust: Planned Parenthood Invades Africa. Goal Is To Increase Abortion Services By 82 Percent
(CNSnews) In its strategic plan for Africa for the years 2010-215, the International Planned Parenthood Federation has set an organizational goal of increasing its ”abortion services” in that part of the world by 82 percent.
The number is in Figure 2, the “performance framework” of the plan (page 7), under “performance milestones/benchmarks” and notes its expectation of an “82 percent increase in abortion services: 212,021 services by 2013, and 273,656 by 2015.”
CNSNews.com asked Paul Bell, senior communication officer with IPPF based in the United Kingdom, a series of questions about the group’s strategic plan, including whether the 82 percent increase in “abortion services” by 2015 represents an increase in abortions specifically or abortions and other services.
“The numbers seen in relation to abortion services include post abortion care services following unsafe abortion, counseling services related to abortion, post-abortion family planning services and safe abortion services including medical and surgical abortions,” said Bell. ”IPPF does not seek to ‘increase’ the number of abortions, but to make abortion accessible and safe wherever women seek such services.”
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Meanwhile, back at Holocaust HQ…
Abortion provider predicts ‘free states’ and ‘slave states’ if Obama Loses
(Daily Caller; h/t: Robert Fine via IOTW) The founder and owner of one of the first and largest abortion clinics in the United States, Merle Hoffman, held a press conference Tuesday to discuss her study that found abortions in the United States are on the rise.
According to Hoffman, as the economy continues to decline, abortions continue to rise. Her study found that 73 percent of women who had an abortion reported that the reason was due to their economic situation.
(Merle Hoffman on the right)
Hoffman told TheDC that there will be “free states” and “slave states” if President Obama loses the 2012 election to any of the current Republican presidential candidates.
“Each and every candidate has specified unequivocally that they would overturn Roe v. Wade. And if in fact they were in the power of the presidency and had the ability to do that … we can see a pre-Roe reality … where you’d have a country where there, in my mind, are free states and slave states,” said Hoffman.
“Women would be coming in droves to the free states … more and more women would attempt to have illegal abortions. Where going to have things like underground railroads to help these women,” she said.
“We’re looking at a very dim future if any of these Republican candidates occupy that Oval Office.”
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UPDATE (01.23.2012 h/t: Winston): Our Constitutional Right To Commit Genocide
(CNS News) President Barack Obama says the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade is the chance to recognize the “fundamental constitutional right” to abortion and to “continue our efforts to ensure that our daughters have the same rights, freedoms, and opportunities as our sons to fulfill their dreams.”
More: HERE
Why are Obama critics so dumb?: HERE
Why are Hitler critics so dumb?: HERE
American Holocaust: Colorado Christian University won’t participate – sues the Feds: HERE
ObamaCare Double-Counter Kathleen Sebelius destroys key evidence in Planned Parenthood case: HERE
Planned Parenthood reports record baby kills — up 8000+ in one year: HERE
Obama marks abortion anniversary — Happy Birthday Genocide!: HERE
Planned Parenthood helps pimp’s underage sex ring: HERE
Planned Parenthood sponsor One Nation Rally: HERE
Obama and pals use Christianity to sell ObamaCare: HERE
Atheism – it’s just too simple: HERE
The Rose Galaxy: A pair of interacting galaxies called, ‘Arp 273‘
Atheism Is Too Simple
“If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.” ― C.S. Lewis
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Hubble Space Telescope Image of Arp 273 (above): The distorted shape of the larger of the two galaxies shows signs of tidal interactions with the smaller of the two. It is thought that the smaller galaxy has actually passed through the larger one.
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C.S. Lewis forecasts the dangerous times we live in — Government channeling faith away from God: HERE
History of the Declaration: HERE
h/t: Jim
Cool.
Sad Hill just won another award. The 2011 ‘PUK Finalist‘ Award, to be exact. And Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs was the judge.
Pamela, a regular guest of CNN, Fox News, The Washington Post and The New York Times had this to say about the contest finalists and winner:
(IOTW) Really great stuff. I hate that liberal feel good crap, ‘you are all winners!’, but there was more than one that deserved the crown. The importance of the message was a consideration I took into account as well. The Meesh art was particularly biting …. but this is an election year and that is a fight. And I mean knock-down-drag-out-save-the-free-world fight.
In a just world, these artists/illustrators would be influencing the culture and media in a much wider, far larger national arena, but the culture is under siege given the low state of the world. These talented readers are guerrilla fighters in the information battle-space. Hey, it’s what we do. And their talents were never so desperately needed. If I had the dough I’d be running these posters on the back of Time, Newsweak, Rolling Stone etc.
Go to IOTW to see the ’2011 PUK Award Winner’: HERE
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Of course none of this would be possible without SHN’s loyal readers and the nomination from ‘rightwingfeather‘. Thank you wherever, whomever you are.
SHN UPDATE: Now might be a good time to mention that Sad Hill News, a 1.3-year-old conservative ‘racist’ news site, hit the 2,000,000 mark a couple months back. I’m mighty grateful to you (the reader), those lurking on Facebook and the numerous sites that carry SHN (see ‘Sites Featuring Sad Hill News‘ in the right-hand column; scroll down).
An interesting phenomenon has taken place, and it started just before Thanksgiving. Life has required more of my time, reducing the frequency of posts I’m able to produce and therefore the number of comments folks leave behind – yet readership has increased (DBKP also noticed – Thanks!). So, for now I will continue thinking of SHN as my ‘community service’, or way of ‘writing my Congressman’ while hoping, praying it’s more effective.
Thank you all for growing Sad Hill News!
I’ll leave you with last year’s 2 most popular (linked/shared/ripped-off) SHN graphics:
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SHN hits 500,000 mark: HERE
Dude, what’s with the name, ‘Sad Hill’? Go: HERE
About Sad Hill: HERE
Get your Marxist memorabilia before The One is removed from office…
1. Obama Countdown Clock: HERE
2. Obama Outlet Cover: HERE
3. Obama ‘Hope’ Doll (only $149.99): HERE
4. Obama Ice Cream: HERE
5. Obama Toe Fungus Sandals: HERE
6. Obama Lava Lamp (just sold out!): HERE
7. Obama Warhol iPhone Cover (also sold out!): HERE
8. And my personal favorite. While not a Barack memento per se, technically it’s Obama vintage. The ‘Angry Bird Feeder’: HERE
(Image courtesy of IOTW)
Obama removes Christian symbols at Georgetown University: HERE
Obama Christ, ‘My people, you continue to have my blessing’: HERE
Obama Memorabilia – ‘Hope’ just $149.99: HERE
Re-Boot!
Ugg-ly: Zappos Hackers Access 24 Million Customer Acconts
(Forbes) Twenty-four million Zappos customers are getting an unpleasant Sunday-evening surprise.
The Amazon-owned e-commerce firm has revealed that it was the target of a cyber attack that gained access to its internal network, including the accounts of 24 million of its users. Though the company says that no complete credit card numbers were revealed in the breach, the intruders may have accessed customers’ names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, addresses, the last four digits of their credit card numbers, and encrypted passwords. Zappos says it’s taken the precaution of resetting the passwords of all its customers and directing them to set a new password upon visiting the site.
“We were recently the victim of a cyber attack by a criminal who gained access to parts of our internal network and systems through one of our servers in Kentucky,” chief executive Tony Hsieh wrote to Zappos employees in an email posted to the site, declining to offer more information about the breach.
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Here’s part of the email warning Zappos sent to its customers:
h/t: John G
Unfortunately America would have to close its commercial airports in order to kill CNN and Newsweek. So until the airline travel hubs liberal incubators stop receiving taxpayer funds via Big Government, we’ll have to live with loaded statement brainwashing.
Remember this Newsweek classic?
More hamster nesting material: HERE
h/t: Robert Fine
