Please fix the headline.

“Fox News Journalist” ???

The poster child for an oxymoron?

Bring in the cardboard Nancy Pelosi . . .

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16119-guantanamo-attorney-found-dead-in-apparent-suicide

Nothing in the Toledo newspapers, though he may not have died in Toledo.

http://www.toledoblade.com/

http://www.toledofreepress.com/

The Brazilians may not be targeting the urban consumer market:

http://www.csembrasil.com.br/CSEMBrasil_ComBR/EN/TechConteudo.aspx?CodCont=19

“Approximately 500,000 households and up to 2.5 million people are still thought to be without electricity in Brasil. For practical reasons, many of their homes will never be connected to the grid, and so off-grid solutions are required. Solar power, especially lightweight, rugged and portable OPV is a clean and efficient candidate to provide power and comfort to these isolated communities.”

May have a lot lower average electrical load, given that they had electricity in the first place.

An efficiency claim:

“It is estimated that 20-50% more energy is generated by OPV solar modules with the same quoted efficiency as standard silicon cells.”

Some other solar news:

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/513396/a-startups-nanowire-ink-lifts-solar-cell-efficiency/

“The Lund University team lead by Samuelson has developed an alternative method that does away with the substrate. It starts by vaporizing gold to produce aerosol nanoparticles, which flow into a tube-shaped furnace along with two other gases. The gold serves as a seed that catalyzes a reaction with the gases to form gallium arsenide nanowires.”

Hope they can recycle the gold.

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/513596/first-solar-shines-as-the-solar-industry-falters/

“By next year solar power could cost as little as 10 cents per kilowatt-hour without subsidies and thus become cheap enough to compete with fossil fuels in many markets around the world, First Solar says. It expects to lower costs to 7.5 cents per kilowatt-hour by 2016, bringing solar power close in price to one of the cheapest sources of power in the United States—a new natural-gas power plant, which the U.S. Energy Information Administration expects to average 6.5 cents per kilowatt-hour over its lifetime.”

Haven’t seen anyone here or elsewhere comment on McConnell’s use of the term “Nixonian” to describe the bugging. Too funny for words.

Yes, indeed, if being a jerk was grounds for imprisonment, we would need an even more massive investment in prison infrastructure.

A classic case from a few decades ago was the FBI entrapment of John De Lorean, by most accounts not a teddy bear. The entrapment was so blatant that the jury, after delivering their not guilty verdict, issued a rebuke of the government for bringing the case to court.

Wish there were more juries with that sense of justice.

More here:

http://www.stanforddaily.com/2012/11/12/tinker-sailor-soldier-spy/

http://www.fas.org/sgp/jud/hitsel/index.html

“Ratner told Firedoglake, ‘ . . . wouldn’t that give a reasonable person watching the perception that [the judge] might not be fair in this case?’ ”

And there’s the problem. The concept of “what would a reasonable man do?” that is said to underlie so much of our legal system seems to have fallen by the wayside. “Stand your ground” is a recent bad example.

At a higher level, the notion of “a government of laws and not of men” seems to be just a faded memory.

In truth, it’s always been an uphill fight, but encouraging signs seem to pop up less frequently of late.

The common thread among the 4 examples cited is that they were all government employees at the time. But the feds are also waging war on non-government whistle-blowers.

Consider Bradley Birkenfeld, he of the record IRS finder’s fee (over $100 M), also a convicted felon.

Juan Gonzalez provided a clue 3 years ago:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/money/whistleblower-bradley-birkenfeld-u-s-pols-off-shore-accounts-ubs-article-1.168792

” ‘We had an office in Washington that we all referred to as the PEP office – for ‘Politically Exposed People,’ Bradley Birkenfeld said. . . . ‘Only top managers from the bank knew the names of the political clients,’ Birkenfeld said.”

Juan couldn’t resist one more tilt at a windmill:

“Instead of scapegoating the guy who broke this fraud case wide open, the government should start tracking down the biggest clients, politicians and top UBS executives at the center of it all.”

As the Republican Party continues to drive government into the abyss, it’s hard not to think that “Republican Patriot” is an oxymoron.

Why, oh why, isn’t Bernie Sanders the most popular political figure in America?

Maybe because his name isn’t included in the poll questions.

I did admire Hillary’s pushing back at her final Senate hearing, but otherwise view her and Bill as a pair who played a major role in destroying what the Democratic Party once represented, in favor of getting more donations.

Darn.

To quote Jim Hightower, who probably borrowed it elsewhere, Harkin is one of the last members of the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party.

You probably know this, but just in case, be careful with the Tylenol.

Recommended max daily dose is 4,000 mg. Each tablet is 500 mg, so that’s 8 regular Tylenol per day.

If you’re also taking Hydrocodone (e.g., Vicodin, Norco, etc.), it also has acetaminophen (Tylenol), either 500 mg or 325 mg. As Father Guido Sarducci, says, “It-a adds up”.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/meds/a681004.html

Worth reading Lessig’s full post.

http://lessig.tumblr.com/post/40347463044/prosecutor-as-bully

“For remember, we live in a world where the architects of the financial crisis regularly dine at the White House — and where even those brought to ‘justice’ never even have to admit any wrongdoing, let alone be labeled ‘felons.’ ”

So much for the concept of a government of laws and not of men.

as Mr. Kiriakou can attest

Obama is a better looking Richard Nixon, with a cleaner vocabulary. Same person underneath.