A small victory – Delight as four wind turbines in the Yorkshire Dales become the first in Britain to be torn down. (h/t peterj)

Bumped for announcement of our winners. First the runners-up:

Leave a quarter… I’m not at my other job either. – andycanuck
Obama’s Telepromter falls on Hard times – dkjones
Ergonomic … ATM …. BETA ….. Model! – Joe Molnar

And the winner is…

Signposts. Doing the jobs that American’s won’t do. -Iowa Jim

Send me an email, I’ll get you fixed up with a book.
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Photo credit, SDA Norm: “three hours before this picture was taken your standard mope was bumming money from motorists exiting I-40 onto Eubank Blvd, Albuquerque, New Mexico. I guess he had better things to do, but wanted to maximize his profit potential by strapping his sign and deposit box to a nearby post to keep the good times rolling.”
I’m stumped for a headline, so here’s your chance at a free book from the expansive SDA free book library. Contest closes Saturday at midnight.

The Threat We Face

The president, his chief operative Valerie Jarrett and his chief political strategist David Axelrod all came out of the same Communist left and the same radical new left as I did, and all have remained heart and soul a part of it. As someone who turned his back on that destructive movement, I can say with confidence that they have not. If a person belongs to an organization or is the supporter of an idea that they come to see as destructive or evil, the first thing they will want to do when they leave is to warn others against it, to warn them of the dangers it represents. If a person does not do this – that tells me that he or she hasn’t left the destructive movement or abandoned the pernicious idea but has just put another face on them. Instead of calling themselves communists or socialists they call themselves liberals and progressives. This camouflage is very old. I never once heard my parents and their party friends refer to themselves as Communists. They were progressives – and registered Democrats.
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The fact that I had a radical past allowed me to see much of this coming. But even I never thought we would be looking so soon at the prospect of a one-party state. Those words may sound hyperbolic, but take a moment to think about it. If you have transformed the taxing agency of the state into a political weapon – and Obama has; if you are setting up a massive government program to gather the financial and health information of every citizen, and control their access to care; and if you have a spy agency that can read the mail and listen to the communications of every individual in the country, you don’t really need a secret police to destroy your political opponents. Once you have silenced them, you can proceed with your plans to remake the world in your image.

The American Interest;

The global solar industry is in shambles. Consumers can find Chinese panels for relatively cheap (though of questionable quality), but every step of the production chain is being propped up by government subsidies. American panel makers are folding, but so too are Chinese manufacturers, and Beijing’s central planners won’t be able to keep them afloat forever.