French Bulldog Puppy - Cutest Video Ever

Cutest bulldog puppy video ever.

French Bulldog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0-Sv6YnxEc

Left Wing Extremists G20 Pittsburgh

The left wing extremists are at it again, this time at the G20. These punks think they know what is best for all of us. Homeowners are armed with bats to protect their families and property, all the while as the left wingnuts break the windows out of small businesses.

The left tried to discredit Tea Party Townhall meetings all over the country by showing up as phony outraged and concerned citizens, only bent on raising hell and drowning out decent folks.

Wonder if Tea Party folks should show up there to balance these punks out, so they'll look like mere disgruntled democrats.

"Bite Me Jew Boy" Is NBC Losing Control? ACORN Corruption Email

NBC's purported response to a general press release: "Bite Me Jew Boy."


Americans For Limited Government (ALG) has posted on its website an email it purportedly received from NBC in response to a general press release in which "ALG calls on congress to Put Up or Shut Up on defunding ACORN."

The ACORN story will turn out to be one of the biggest corruption stories of this century, and no one is reporting it but FOX News and bloggers.

Why is NBC / MSNBC so protective of ACORN?

And why are they attacking people in such an insulting and indefensible manner?

Read all the junk here:

http://www.getliberty.org/

Ed Hardy and other Teen Brand Name Clothing

I know, I know...I'm old. But in my time clothing with skulls and wild animals were only worn by the unsavory characters - the demon glorifying types.

Whats up with so much of this design on our youth's clothes?

Ed Hardy - Love Kills Slowly
Attractive colors, but strange...

Teenagers with own car have more crashes

For people with children of driving age - great article...


By AP Writer Li ndsey Tan ner



Teens With Own Cars Have More Crashes

Study Finds Young Drivers Who Share Others' Cars, Have More Attentive Parents Are Less Likely to Crash


Parents beware: Giving in to teens' demands for their own cars can have dangerous consequences, new research suggests.

Teenagers with their own cars or free use of one are much more likely to get in crashes than those who share a car. And crashes are much less common among teens whose parents set clear driving safety rules...


Read the rest here:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/25/health/main5340340.shtml

Taxpayer $529M Loan to Al Gore's Green Car Co in Finland

So, what about loaning that money instead to a US company for green car development IN AMERICA just didn't make sense to the Obama administration????


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125383160812639013.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLTopStories

Article by JOSH MITCHELL and STEPHEN POWER


Green Car Co. Backed By Gore Gets Half Billion Gov't Loan

WASHINGTON -- A tiny car company backed by former Vice President Al Gore has just gotten a $529 million U.S. government loan to help build a hybrid sports car in Finland that will sell for about $89,000.

The award this week to California startup Fisker Automotive Inc. follows a $465 million government loan to Tesla Motors Inc., purveyors of a $109,000 British-built electric Roadster. Tesla is a California startup focusing on all-electric vehicles, with a number of celebrity endorsements that is backed by investors that have contributed to Democratic campaigns.

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Fisker's Karma hybrid sports car, above, will initially cost about $89,000.
.The awards to Fisker and Tesla have prompted concern from companies that have had their bids for loans rejected, and criticism from groups that question why vehicles aimed at the wealthiest customers are getting loans subsidized by taxpayers.

"This is not for average Americans," said Leslie Paige, a spokeswoman for Citizens Against Government Waste, an anti-tax group in Washington. "This is for people to put something in their driveway that is a conversation piece. It's status symbol thing."

DOE officials spent months working with Fisker on its application, touring its Irvine, Calif., and Pontiac, Mich., facilities and test-driving prototypes.

Matt Rogers, who oversees the department's loan programs as a senior adviser to Energy Secretary Steven Chu, said Fisker was awarded the loan after a "detailed technical review" that concluded the company could eventually deliver a highly fuel-efficient hybrid car to a mass audience. Fisker said most of its DOE loan will be used to finance U.S. production of a $40,000 family sedan that has yet to be designed.

"It's the ability to drive significant change in fuel economy across a large market segment" that swayed the department to approve the Fisker loan, Mr. Rogers said. "We got quite excited."

Henrik Fisker, who designed cars for BMW, Aston Martin and Tesla before starting his Fisker Automotive in 2007, said his goal is to build the first plug-in electric hybrids that won't sacrifice the luxury, performance and looks of traditional gas-powered luxury cars.

The Karma will target an exclusive audience -- Gore was one of the first to sign up for one. Mr. Fisker says all new technology starts out being expensive. He pointed to flat-screen televisions that once started at $25,000 but are now affordable to the mass market.

The four-door Karma, powered by a lithium-ion battery, will be able to run solely on electric power for 50 miles, and will achieve an average fuel economy of 100 mpg over the span of a year, the company says. Production is scheduled to start in December, with about 15,000 vehicles a year expected to hit the U.S. market starting next June.

Many of the 1,500 people who have made deposits on the Karma are former BMW and Mercedes owners who want an environmentally friendly car without sacrificing luxury, Mr. Fisker said.

He said he pitched the Karma to Mr. Gore at an event hosted by KPCB last year, and that the former vice president almost immediately submitted a down payment for the car.

Kalee Kreider, a spokeswoman for Mr. Gore, confirmed that the former vice president backs Fisker and purchased a Karma. "He believes that a global shift of the automobile fleet toward electric vehicles, accompanying a shift toward renewable-energy generation, represents an important part of a sensible strategy for solving the climate crisis," she said in a statement.

Fisker's top investors include Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, a veteran Silicon Valley venture-capital firm of which Gore is a partner. Employees of KPCB have donated more than $2.2 million to political campaigns, mostly for Democrats, including President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonpartisan group that tracks campaign contributions.

Officials at Kleiner Perkins didn't return requests for comment.

Asked whether Mr. Gore had any influence on Fisker's application, the DOE's Rogers said, "None at all."

"This is a very attractive, very across-party-lines kind of vehicle," Mr. Rogers said. "All of the detailed due diligence [was] done by independent review teams."

Other Fisker investors include Eco-Drive (Capital) Partners LLC, an investment consortium, and Qatar Investment Authority, a state-run investor based in Qatar.

Fisker's government loans will come from a $25 billion program established by Congress in 2007 to help auto makers invest in the technology to meet a new congressional mandate to improve fuel efficiency. In June, the DOE awarded the first $8 billion from the program to Ford Motor Co., Nissan Motor Co., and Tesla, which are all developing electric cars.

Some companies that have been turned down for loans from DOE say they did not get much feedback from the department about their applications. O. John Coletti, president of EcoMotors International of Troy, Mich., said his company applied for a $20 million loan from the agency last December, and last month got a one-page rejection letter from the loan program's director, Lachlan Seward. EcoMotors' lead investor is Vinod Khosla, himself a former Kleiner Perkins partner and a longtime campaign contributor to Republicans and Democrats alike.

"I don't have an issue with the winners … it's possible somebody has better ideas than us," Mr. Coletti said. At the same time, he said, "More feedback from DOE on a timely basis would be wonderful. When you're running a business you'd like to know whether you're going to be able to take advantage of this opportunity."

Mr. Coletti's company -- which makes diesel engines and is still waiting to hear from the Department on a separate loan application to help it build a manufacturing facility -- isn't without politically well-connected patrons, either. Its major investor is Vinod Khosla, himself a former Kleiner Perkins partner who has donated to campaigns.

Scott Redmond, CEO of XP Vehicles Inc., said he met with DOE officials twice in Washington after applying for a $40 million loan to develop a $15,000 to $25,000 hybrid, and that both times he was told his application looked good. Since receiving a rejection letter from DOE in August, Redmond said, he has been unable to get a full explanation as to why his request was turned down.

Mr. Rogers said he was not at liberty to discuss individual applications that had been turned down, but said the process has been handled fairly and objectively.

Write to Josh Mitchell at joshua.mitchell@dowjones.com and Stephen Power at stephen.power@wsj.com


Corrections & Amplifications
Tesla Motors Inc. produces all-electric vehicles. A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that Tesla produces hybrid gas-electric vehicles.

Chicago Politics - Ouroboros - Corruption

The Chicago Ouroboros: Obama, Ayers, Oughton, Dohrn, Minow, Taibbi, Koch, and DARK POOL TRADING


This problem just keeps getting creepier...

Posted on FreeRepublic.com Friday, September 25, 2009 1:21:32 PM by Special Agent Anthony DiNozzo

This writer's post is located here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2348280/posts


1) Circa 1994/1995, Bill Ayers ghostwrites Dreams from My Father.


2) Barack Hussein Obama Jr thereby agrees to the publication of a fictional account of his own life, which includes a tale of a bogus Caucasian girlfriend who is in fact based on William Ayers's memories of his deceased lover, Diana Oughton.


3) Diana Oughton has perished in the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion of 1970, and Ayers has gone on to marry Bernardine Dohrn [Ohrnstein] during his period in hiding.


4) Bernadine Dohrn [Ohrnstein] has received her JD in 1967, from the University of Chicago Law School, but does not return to gainful employment until circa 1984, when she finds work at Sidley-Austin, LLP, of Chicago.


5) During her time at Sidley-Austin, Bernadine Dohrn [Ohrnstein] works with a young intern and lawyer named Michelle LaVaughn Robinson.


6) Since 1965, Newton Minow has been a partner & senior counsel at Sidley-Austin.


7) Circa 1987/1988, Newton Minow's daughter, Martha, is instrumental [along with Ayers and Khalid Al-Mansour] in getting Barack Hussein Obama Jr admitted to Harvard Law School.


8) Now fast forward to 2007 & 2008 & 2009, when Goldman Sachs bets its portfolio of Liar Loans against the short-traders then coordinates the Obama campaign from within the Bush Treasury Department and sabotages the McCain campaign from within the Bush Treasury Department and hoodwinks George Bush into signing the TARP and receives tens of billions of dollars stolen from the American taxpayer and laundered through AIG and emerges from the collapse of the markets as the dominant force in NYSE program trading and transforms those tens of billions of dollars [stolen from the American taxpayer] into record bonus payouts in the middle of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.


9) In July of 2009, Matt Taibbi publishes a blistering exposé of Goldman Sachs.


10) Nell Minow, daughter of Newton and sister of Martha, is immediately dispatched to spearhead the campaign to destroy Matt Taibbi.


11) Meanwhile, Goldman Sachs, along with subprime lender Credit Suisse, has come to dominate a particularly odious form of chicanery known as DARK POOL TRADING.


12) In turn, Credit Suisse's Steven Koch has been a major donor to the Obama campaign, leading bundling efforts which run from at least March of 2007 all the way through to December 26, 2008 [at which time he is joined by Goldman Sachs's Bruce A. Heyman and Sidley-Austin's John Levi].


13) In the meantime, Bernardine Dohrn [Ohrnstein] has found work as an Associate Professor at Northwestern University School of Law.


14) And in 1998, Bernardine Dohrn [Ohrnstein] delivers the paper "Another Kind of Innocence: Children and the Death Penalty" at the National Conference on the Death Penalty and the Wrongfully Convicted, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, IL.


15) But Credit Suisse's Steven Koch sits on the Advisory Board of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law, is on the Honor Roll of Non-Alumni Donors of the Friends of Northwestern University School of Law, and is a member of the John Henry Wigmore Club of Donors to the Northwestern University School of Law.


16) And Steven Koch serves as a member of the Law School Visiting Committee of the University of Chicago Law School, which has employed Barack Hussein Obama Jr as an untenured lecturer.


17) And finally, Steven Koch has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Francis W Parker School, while William Ayers, on the other hand, is a Consulting Editor of Francis W Parker's Schools Journal, he has published the paper, A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire: Teaching Toward Transformation, in Vol. 3, No. 2 of Schools Journal, and his Curriculum Vitae indicates the following presentations: The Art of the Personal Essay: Writing Our Lives Francis Parker School, Chicago, IL, October 19, 2004; Writing Our Lives, Francis W. Parker School, April 19, 2004; Fugitive Days - Then and Now, Francis W. Parker School, April 5, 2004; and Hidden Questions, Francis W. Parker School, Chicago, Illinois, December 1, 2000.