Germany says solar energy is path to bankruptcy, yet Obama doubles US down on it

Solar energy - not the answer

One of the biggest national investors in green energy, Germany, is coming to the realization that green energy is the path to bankruptcy. This is nothing short of blasphemy in the green world to even make a partial admission that solar power is not the panacea it was promised to be.

Germany invested gargantuan amounts of money in green energy, doling out more than 130 billion in subsidies to install solar systems and spends an additional 10 billion per year subsidizing existing solar installations.

Yet after all of this capital expenditure, Germany has little to show in terms of reducing green house gasses and helping the country's power needs. Despite massive investment, solar power accounts for approximately three percent of Germany’s total energy...When the sun shines!  To add insult to injury, Germans also pay the second highest price for electricity in the developed world, due mainly to the fact that they are heavily subsidizing green energy by adding the cost to everyone's utility bills.

According to Der Spiegel, members of Chancellor Merkel’s staff are describing the policy as a massive money pit. Philipp Rösler, Germany’s minister of economics and technology, has called the spiraling solar subsidies a “threat to the economy.”

Germany will be cutting subsidies to solar sooner than planned, and to phase out support over the next five years.

In spite of  this ominous sign that solar may be a technology that will not reach its dreamed of potential, President Obama has America on a headlong rush down the same path of energy broken dreams that Germany has found itself on.
 -------------------
Read more:

Is there a Penn State Climategate scandal?

Obamas green energy policies make america vulnerable to terrorism

Green energy stimulus bang for buck costs 5.5 million per job

-----------------------

The green energy price tag for America under the Obama administration is reaching into the billions. When you consider the energy policies that choke off America from its natural resources and the subsidies to green energy by adding the price tag onto consumers utility bills, we are talking more than billions, possibly trillions, in outright costs and damage to our economy.

Does Obama and his team of experts in the White House think that if we just throw enough taxpayer money at green energy, it will magically become economically feasible? That the rules of physics and economics will somehow be swept aside?

President Obama should examine very closely what lead to Germany's decision to basically pull the plug on solar. President Obama has had plenty of red warning flags along this path he has us on, some of these flags have names like Solyndra and Evergreen Solar.

Another red flag is the cost of gasoline to Americans; in some areas it is hitting over 5.00 per US gallon. Due to Obama energy policies and tensions in the middle east, gas is getting very expensive. Expensive fuel will increase the price of everything Americans consume and take money out of their pockets at the exact time you want to encourage consumer spending. This could tip the American economy back into the recession they tell us we are no longer in.

Fueling most of the Obama administrations energy policies, is the belief that we are in the midst of a climate change caused by mankind's contribution of green house gasses. But, in an amazing new expose just published, it seems the science behind the green house gas theory...May not be based on good science.

John O'Sullivan has just come out with Roy Spencer’s Fatal Error: Believing the Vacuum of Space has a Temperature. This finding should tip the green house gas theory on its head.

The most unique gifts: Time capsules in American and world history: lifemagforsale.com

For other points of view visit Carroll Standard: carrollstandard.com

Aspirin joke makes left go mad and gives Santorum a headache

There is a din in the main stream media today because a main backer of US Presidential candidate Rick Santorum, made a joke about birth control practices in America.

The left leaning press smelled blood when they heard the "not politically correct"remark made by a man named Foster Friess. Like hungry sharks drawn to a bleeding hemophiliac in the ocean, they pressed in for the attack on Mr. Friess.

The offending statement that brought the level of cacophony from the liberal press to ear bleed level? Friess said "The form of birth control used when he was younger, was called an aspirin and women kept them between their knees to avoid pregnancy".

Taken in context, Mr. Friess is from previous generation, where there were few options, but lets get serious folks, what is wrong with abstaining from sex as a form of birth control? Are those that choose to be celibate to be condemned because they chose not to have sex? Where is the liberal tolerance?

But of course this fits in well in the left leaning media's coordinated character assassination of Republican candidates. Recent revelations by the news organization Daily Caller, has exposed the cozy connection between Media Matters & Center for American Progress with the White House. What gets pushed in these publications seems to get parroted by many members of the main stream media.

Even famed far left champion of liberal causes Alan Dershowitz spoke out against this unholy alliance when he recently said in a radio interview on Jay Severins Boston talk radio 1200 :

“These two organizations have been found to be anti-Semitic by many of the objective monitoring groups,” he said. “And now they are closely associated with the Democratic Party and I have said very clearly there is no room in this tent for me on the one hand, and for Media Matters and for this other group on the other hand. We can’t be in the same tent. I will not be in a tent with fascists"

Those are powerful accusations from a man of such standing in the very liberal wing of the Democrat Party. His warnings should be heeded.

This drummed up din, is willfully and purposely being used to detract from the failures of the Obama administration and designed to drive a wedge between Americans, a form of divide and conquer.

Mr. Friess and his wife Lynn, through their Friess Family Foundation, are major benefactors to many charities around America and the world. They are also known for their great works in helping disaster victims in New Orleans, Haiti, Indonesia and Malawi. They are the epitome of true America heroes that give America a good name around the world.

Mr. Friess made an apology saying the "joke bombed," and "many didn't recognize it as a joke but thought it was my prescription for today's birth control practices."
"In fact, the only positive comments I got were from folks who remembered it from 50 years back. Birth control pills weren't yet available, so everyone laughed at the silliness on how an aspirin could become a birth control pill. To all those who took my joke as modern day approach I deeply apologize and seek your forgiveness."
Can we now get back to the business of choosing the next President?
The most unique gifts: Time capsules in American and world history: lifemagforsale.com

For other points of view visit Carroll Standard: carrollstandard.com

President Obama picks on Catholics - will this prove to be his undoing?

President Barack Obama

The Catholic Church is the Church built on the rock of Peter. It is the cradle of Christianity and the wellspring from which all sects of Christianity have sprung for almost 20 centuries.

No stranger to enemies, it's earliest believers are enshrined as martyrs. Those faithful ones died for their beliefs, rather than bend to powerful government leaders by renouncing those tenets. Many forces have assaulted the Church over the centuries and many have failed.

Today the Church has a new, powerful enemy of its core beliefs banging at their gate, President Obama. In his rush to implement the highly unpopular Obamacare legislation before the Supreme Court rules on its constitutionality, President Obama has decided to frontally assault the Catholic Church.

He is trying to force the Catholic church to pay for abortion procedures and contraception devices for any of its female employees. Obama decreed that these are women's "health rights" and should be provided free of charge by the Catholic institutions.
------------------
Read more: 

More news on US politics from IrishCentral

100-year-old Irish American couple celebrates Valentine’s in Jersey

Snakes in the parade banned from Savannah’s St. Patrick’s Day march

------------------

Never mind that these services are already widely available throughout the United States and most of this is already provided free of charge to those that cannot afford it. Obama wants to force his ideology upon the church and make them provide services they are spiritually and morally opposed to.

It was a direct punch in the face to the Catholic religion and a basic assault on most of Christianity who agree with the right to life philosophy.

Of course, the President appeared to back track on his attack a few days later, with his late Friday announcement that the Church itself wouldn't have to pay for these services, but their insurance companies would have to. Anyone with an IQ above room temperature knows this doesn't change anything. The insurance companies will just increase the premiums on the church to cover the expense of these new imposed "benefits". To top the egregious insult to truth off, many, if not most of these religious organizations, self insure. President Obama and his advisers know all of this.

The President's "accommodation" towards the Church is all smoke and mirrors and Church leaders know it. They are not happy that these government impositions will be forced upon their institutions.

Other religious organizations have now stepped up to stand next to the Church, which many see as a separation of church and state issue. President Obama has drawn a line in the sand, it is going to be his way or the highway and he is marshaling his forces in the media to get his way.

Yet, no matter how grandiose or powerful President Obama thinks he is, he should take a moment to examine where he stands in the whole history of this Church.

The Church has been around for almost 2,000 years, and in spite of some of its present day problems, it is a powerful spiritual and institutional force. The United States has been in existence for just about 235 years and under Obama's leadership is in decline.

President Obama has awoken the sleeping giant. If I was a Vegas odds maker, my money would be on the Church.

The most unique gifts: Time capsules in American and world history: lifemagforsale.com

For other points of view visit Carroll Standard: carrollstandard.com

Alec Baldwin brings knife to the gunfight with Sean Hannity

Alec Baldwin declared war on conservative media giant Sean Hannity yesterday, when he Tweeted out: "Is there a bigger idiot alive than Sean Hannity"? Sean answered that question by saying today: "Yes Alec, I can think of one right now...You!"

Sean had been on a self imposed gag order on commenting about Alec's inappropriate comments because he made a promise to Alec's brother Stephen, not to engage in negativity with his Brother. But today on his radio show, Sean took the gag out, took the gloves off and went after Baldwin.

Hannity is a natural Irish brawler anyway and never backs down from a fight. Alec Baldwin has already been on the losing end of a verbal run in with Sean a few years back when they sparred on a radio program. Baldwin got so flabbergasted that he ended up doing a tirade on live radio, trying to demean Sean by calling him a no talent, former construction worker. Come on Alec is that all you've got?

Sean Hannity says he is not going to take anymore abuse from Alec and called him a thug, bully and an angry bitter liberal during his radio show today.(Angry bitter liberal? Can you get any lower) He says that he is going to help Alec by addressing his famous anger management problems, a sort of Alec Baldwin intervention. Hannity dedicated today's show as the "special angry Alec Baldwin show", interspersing the entire time with snippets and excerpts of Alec Baldwin's public outbursts.

Sean says Alec Baldwins past behavior shows he is a self centered narcissist and doesn't care for anyone else but himself. Baldwin delayed a planeload of fellow passengers when he threw a tantrum when the flight attendant reminded him all electronic devices must be turned off. Baldwins tantrum caused the Captain to turn the aircraft around and taxi back to the gate, where Baldwin was thrown off the flight.

----------------------
See More:

Irish Civil War? O'Reilly has turned on O'Bama

Loose cannon Alec Baldwin insults President Reagan.

Ann Coulter calls Ted Kennedy a pestilence

----------------------

Sean even went into how Alec had demeaned his 11 year old daughter Ireland over the phone. Unfortunately for Alec, his tirade was secretly taped then released to the public by his ex-wife, Kim Basinger. Baldwin had since apologized for the outburst towards his daughter and had started to rehabilitate his public image.

Of course I wrote a recent column on how Alec had done a very critical hit piece on President Reagan, which in my opinion is totally inappropriate since he isn't around to stick up for himself. For sure President Reagan would mop the floor with the likes of an Alec Baldwin...I could just hear him say with a smile, "Well Alec, there you go again"

Sean is hugely popular with a daily audience of over 14 million listeners and viewers worldwide, anything he does gets great attention. Contrary to Baldwins tweet that Sean is an idiot, Hannity has displayed his mental prowess for years in the media, sparring and destroying those that try to battle him with their dogma. He is fully armed with facts and definitely kissed the Blarney Stone. Anyone willing to step into the ring with him, better have done their homework.

My advice to Alec: Be careful who you pick a fight with.

The most unique gifts: Time capsules in American and world history: http://lifemagforsale.com/

For other points of view visit Carroll Standard: www.carrollstandard.com

Sierra Club was the secret hired gun of the gas industry

Money makes strange bedfellows as we have seen over the years and the old axiom of "everyone has their price" comes to mind.

The Sierra Club has long been the crown jewel of the environmental industry, always at the forefront of causes and the darling of the left. The "Sierra's" are ready to fight almost any type of industrial activity.

But last week a toxic news bombshell exploded when it was revealed the Sierra Club had accepted millions of dollars from the natural gas industry during the period from 2007-2010 from executives associated with Chesapeake Energy. Chesapeake Energy, is an environmental nemesis of the "green" world and purveyor of "fossil fuel."

But it even gets more interesting as we find these funds were to be used by the Sierra Club to bury the coal industry in lawsuits and bad press, through their "beyond coal" campaign. Can this get any better? Yes, the Sierra Club was to promote the product that Chesapeake Energy is now rapidly exploiting through the fracking process, natural gas.

What better way of cornering the market and setting yourself up as the bully on the energy block than by knocking out or crippling your main competitor in the energy industry: Coal.

Coal has been the backbone for cheap energy that has fueled Americas amazing economic growth. Great improvements in technology, especially over the past 30 years have brought us to where you can look a modern coal fired power plant smoke stack and it is hard to tell whether it is burning or not. The air and water are cleaner now than they have ever been in the past 30 years due to great filtering technologies.

But that has not been enough for environmental groups and backed by the EPA they are waging war on coal. But 26 million dollars can buy you lots of friends, the lobbyists for the Sierra Club have been seen roaming the halls of congress spouting the goodness of natural gas.

See:

Polar bears thriving, Al Gore melts down

Green energy stimulus bang for buck costs 5.5 million per job

Green jobs fueled by coal power, the dirty little secret

Obama's green energy policies make america vulnerable to terrorism

Never mind that individual chapters of the Club have been up in arms feeling betrayed that their organization of nature lovers had accepted money from the very industry they feel is a major purveyor of pollution into the environment.

Of course when this news was released, the Sierra Club claimed it was no longer accepting money from the gas industry. But it has been reported that Mayor Bloomberg stepped up with a 50 million gift to fill the breech.

This story gets more interesting as we find that Robert Kennedy Jr., a huge environmental super star and closely affiliated with the Sierra Club in shared projects, has been championing the use of natural gas and fracking, hand in hand with the Sierra Club. Did he play a role in the decision making process that chose to accept the donated money from Chesapeake in the first place? Environmental activists have been outraged at his appearance in ads for the gas industry and his groups’ promotion of gas as a ‘transition’ fuel.

The enemy of my enemy, is my friend.

For the most unique gifts, time capsules in American and world history: lifemagforsale.com

For other points of view visit Carroll Standard: www.carrollstandard.com

The left's over-sexualization of children, causes charges against 6-year-old

The Left's over-sexualization of children is starting to result in more absurd behavior in our school systems. Now a public school in California brings sexual battery charges against a 6-year-old boy.

In another stupendously stupid move by the politically correct education system, a friendly game of tag amongst 6-year-olds, resulted in a sexual battery charge against one of the little children.

How innocent are our children? Not very, according to the rabid left who see sexual connotations in every move as they try to ram down their sexual mores on the rest of the citizens.

According to witnesses, a group of youngsters was playing tag on their elementary school playground, in Hercules, California. Of course, the very essence of the game of tag involves touching, so an innocent move by one young boy resulted in him touching another child's leg.

But since radical leftists have convinced the State of California to treat 5- and 6-year-olds as if they are sexually active, this innocent touch in the course of a child's game, turned the boy into a sexual predator in the eyes of school officials.

_________________
Read more:

GOP Senator Scott Brown now the key figure in Irish E3 visa battle

British take over Obama White House on St.Patrick's week -- Irish celebration pushed back to after St.Patrick's Day

Bill Donohue: blame Madonna not Catholic Church
__________________

After the allegation of illegal touching, the child was interrogated in the principal’s office for 2 hours, without his parents presence, until he confessed to his "crime." This resulted in school officials charging the little boy with a sexual battery charge, which will be on his school record. Additionally, the little boy was immediately suspended from school.

The child's father spoke to the local news media about the situation and said his son was accused of brushing his best friend’s leg while they were playing on the school’s playground. In the American education system, particularly California, it seems the far left thinks it’s perfectly normal to make a 6-year-old child register as a sex offender with a record.

In order to right a serious wrong however, the boys father was forced to hire a lawyer to explore legal avenues. After the threat of litigation hovered over their heads, school officials quickly backed down and dropped the ridiculous charges against the little boy.

It is becoming a popular battle cry that bullying amongst children is an epidemic problem in America's schools. But many Americans are starting to see the left's influence on school policies as absurd bullying. Our schools are turning into politically correct, hermetically sealed environments that don't prepare our children for the real world.

Previously, I wrote on how the left has turned our playgrounds into such "risk free zones," that our kids can't have fun anymore for fear of scraping a knee, or hurting someone's feelings. Read it here: Nanny Staters have made playgrounds too safe

For the most unique gifts, time capsules in American and world history: lifemagforsale.com

For other points of view visit Carroll Standard: www.carrollstandard.com

Donald Trump puts his logo on the Mitt Romney's US presidential campaign

Donald Trump with Mitt Romney on stage

Donald Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president this morning & gave his Trump seal of approval.

Always the promoter and showman, rumors swirled last night that he was going to endorse Newt Gingrich. The Gingrich camp had been so confident of winning the real estate mogul's backing that it had leaked word Trump would support the former House speaker.

But those Gingrich rumors were quashed as Trump made his announcement this morning.

Speaking from the Las Vegas Hotel which bears his name, "The Donald", characteristically got maximum PR effect, using the occasion to get his own brand out there.
-------------------
Read more: 
More news on US politics from IrishCentral


U2’s Bono set to become billionaire thanks to Facebook investment

Big Brother really is watching --Irish tourist nabbed by US Government due to algorithm
-------------------
"It's my honor to endorse Mitt Romney," Trump said, with Romney and his wife standing nearby. He then said Romney is "tough, smart, and he's not going to continue to allow bad things to happen to this country."

Never one to hold back, Trump has been a harsh critic of the Obama administration over the past couple of years, calling Obama's policies stupid and hurtful to America. He has also said that America will not survive another 4 years of Obama at the helm of this country.

Trump, who had also publicly been a less than enthusiastic supporter of Romney in the past, said his past comments were a reflection of not knowing the former Massachusetts Governor very well.

"I never knew him. I knew of him and respected him, but I really got to know him over the past few months," Trump said. "I've had numerous meetings with him."

Trumps enthusiastic endorsement of Romney should close the door on his own Presidential aspirations this campaign season. Donald Trump said he won't run as a 3rd party candidate if Romney gets the GOP nomination.

This endorsement will bring more momentum to the Romney campaign as it comes off it's huge win in the Florida Primary and now heads into Romney friendly territory.

As the GOP Presidential race lands in Nevada, the Romney campaign looks like it is starting to consolidate more power. It is still a long campaign to go until the GOP Tampa convention in August, but Romney is making all the right moves at this time.

For the most unique gifts, time capsules in American and world history: lifemagforsale.com

For other points of view visit Carroll Standard: www.carrollstandard.com