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It turns out that President Obama much-exalted “green” jobs initiative is having a hard time getting off the ground in large part due to the federal government’s own extensive regime of regulatory red tape. Obama hoisted with his own petard. What’s a petard? Maybe a Harvard Law degree, Marxist economics book or something he left on the golf course. Whatever it is, if it’s Obama’s it sure as hell ain’t a job.

President Obama to visit Bay Area next month. I wonder if he will visit Solyndra again to tell us about how wonderful those non-existent green jobs are? Or, perhaps he can tell us where the $535 million went?

Illinois Has Lost More Jobs Than Any Other State. Illinois raised their taxes. They lost 7,200 jobs in June, and an additional 24,900 non-farm jobs in July. See how well those Keynesian economics work?

Freddie Corleone redux: Obama sends Biden to Vegas. Just as Michael Corleone sent his dumb, weak, ineffective brother out to Vegas to do some “important” work for the family, President Obama sent Joe Biden to Glitter Gulch to speak to a clean energy summit. Joe said America can’t lead the world in the 21st century with its current energy policy. No word on whether he was banging cocktail waitresses two at a time like Freddie.

Solar company hyped by Obama goes belly up. Solyndra, the San Francisco Bay Area solar company that picked up a cool $535 million low cost loan from from the Federal government has closed its doors and locked out its employees. Next step, liquidation. Alternate headline: Green workers get pink slips.

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The Justice Department just confirmed that it has “filed a civil antitrust lawsuit to block AT&T Inc.’s proposed acquisition of T-Mobile USA Inc.” The usual reasons were trotted out. Lack of choice. Higher prices. Poorer quality of service. You know, all the stuff that is normally caused by Obamanomics.

Well Dressed Burglar Steals Pennies From Family Dollar. In other news well dressed burglar steals from families and then goes on vacation in Maratha’s Vineyard!

The mayor of a Wisconsin town said on Tuesday a local labor council would have to reimburse the city up to $2,000 for a Labor Day parade if organizers exclude Republican lawmakers from attending. Mayor Tipple stated, “This is not a political rally, it’s a parade, for God’s sake.” A man who takes his duties seriously and applies the law in a fair, even-handed manner…. we wish this fellow was running the DOJ.

Rep. Andre Carson (D-IN) claims “some of them in Congress right now of this tea party movement would love to see you and me … hanging on a tree.” Of course, no evidence of this proposition was provided aside from the generic complaint that the Tea Party is obstructing President Obama’s wish to flush more money down the gubbermint commode. Forget white sheets and axe handles, thrift, living within your means and aversion to borrowing are the prima facie evidence of a RAAAAACIST now.

The Man Who Could Have Been President – Paul Ryan explains why he decided not to run. Polls of candidates and potential candidates showed that Congressman Ryan could have won the nomination and the presidency. But the smartest man in the room by far chose duty to country over personal ambition, saying he could do more in the house to try and fix this effed up country than he could as president. With my hopes dashed, I see no conservative in the race now with what it takes to ensure victory in 2012, let alone to save our country. And I hope to God that Sarah Palin stays the hell out of this race — one not-so-bright candidate who wears his religion on his sleeve is quite enough, thank you.

Obamnomics at work. Yes we can! Hope & Change! The problem is? We have more change in the wrong direction and no hope! According to a Rasmussen poll: Just 17% of working Americans now report that their firms are hiring, while 24% say their firms are laying workers off. Oops! Another downgrade.

So the fed is divided over interest rates. Good. Some time ago Abe Lincoln told us that a house divided could not stand. Here’s to hoping that Honest Abe was right. Because Old Ben hasnt been anything but wrong.

WikiLeaks accidentally leaked a quarter of a million secret State Department cables — putting at risk the lives of a number of US informants, according to published reports. So does this mean Sean Penn and Naomi Watts are going to make a movie disparaging Julian Assange? Somebody cue the crickets.

James Hansen, head of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, was arrested outside the White House as he joined protesters in urging President Barack Obama to reject TransCanada Corp. (TRP)’s $7 billion pipeline. Meanwhile in outer space the the ISS remains in peril. Memo to Obama, perhaps you should have retired this fool instead of the Space Shuttles.

Small town printing its own money to fight austerity. Hey, the Obama Administration did the same thing – they called it Quantitative Easing 1 and Quantitative Easing 2.

‘Dancing with the Stars’ Cast 2011. Yes! It’s public! Nancy Grace will be on Dancing with the Stars. We wondered why Nancy, but then it struck us like a bolt of lightning when we saw that Chaz Bono was going to be on the show. Nancy has been hired to utilize her super-investigative powers to find out what happened to Chastity Bono, who disappeared awhile back.

U.S. Consumer Confidence Drops To Lowest Level In Over Two Years. The Consumer Confidence Index fell to 44.5, down from a revised 59.2 in July. The number was the lowest level since April 2009 when the reading was 40.8. Oh, Mr. President? We’re still waiting for that jobs plan that must have been eaten by your dog Bo, which no doubt will blame Bush and call for tax increases, more golf and more Presidential vacations.

Now Obama’s NLRB tells a church school it’s not religious enough. Yes, the oldest Catholic school in Illinois, established in 1846 is now not religious enough. I guess separation of church and state doesn’t apply if Obama’s government goons smell union votes. Especially when it looks like Obama will need every vote he can muster in 2012 due to his rating downgrades.

Obama invents the airplane bus tour…. An AP reporter said that Obama might have ridden these expensive buses only one mile at each stop. Obama spent most of the “BUS TOUR” on an airplane traveling between stops. Is it just us or is this man not able to tell the truth about anything? Like Wile E. Coyote, this fool is falling from a great height and hitting every branch on the way down.

Photo of the Day: Slapped up the side of the head by reality. This might catch on. Some enterprising entrepreneur could probably make a fortune selling Obama dunce caps to voters who’ve seen the light. Wouldn’t you love to see an audience full of these at Obama’s next speech?

Social security and Bernie Madoff have quite a bit in common. One big difference is that Madoff never compelled us to “contribute” to his frauds. Warning: there is a Venn diagram at the link (Obama: Waaah! They told me there would be no math in this job!)

Obama’s EEOC tells trucking companies to hire alcoholics…. The EEOC is now demanding that trucking companies like Old Dominion Freight Line not only hire and employ “recovering” alcoholics, but also to allow them to continue working as interstate truckers rather than being assigned “to a less safety-sensitive position.” Well, if we can have a mental midget Marxist running the US government, having a few drunks driving 18-wheelers around doesn’t seem like a big deal. We wonder if Obama hires the sobriety-challenged to pilot his 2 million dollar bus or his golf cart?

Darwinists’ Dilemma: How can they maintain their facade of being open-minded and scientific while silencing all scientific debate? It’s a $110,000 conundrum, and as usual with liberal conundrums, taxpayers have to pay for it.

Al Gore’s Political Ties to Fred Phelps of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Yes, that Westboro Baptist Church. The same bunch who protests at soldier’s funerals and runs the website God Hates Fags. This must be where the Reverend Al of the Church of Global Warming learned his trade. Can I get a Hallelujah?

Al Gore, “carbon billionaire”…. No one has made more money from climate change hype than Gore. According to the U.K.’s Guardian newspaper, just one of the “green” companies in which Gore has invested has received over half a billion dollars in subsidies from the Energy Department. Al Gore is profiting handsomely from the climate change hoax he seeks to perpetuate, but he claims it’s the oil and coal companies that are the ones with ulterior motives. When we were young, society had a word for this sort of thing: “fraud.”