Finished goal of running the distance of 2,080 miles from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C and back!!!...plus 339.1 miles
0.0 miles run this week. Daily running average for the week is 0.00 miles per day. Total amount run in the past 800 days is 2,419.1 miles. Daily running average overall is 3.02 miles per day.
Today is the final day of running against Obama. In 800 days I have run an average of 3.02 miles every single day against this president and what his vision of America is. My goal was to run the distance from Lafayette, LA to Washington D.C. and back, which is 2,080 miles. Instead I surpassed 2,080 miles and ran an extra 339.1 miles, which is coincidentally the current circumference of Barack Obama's head and his ever-expanding ego. It swells at the same rate as our national debt.
It's been fun and I thank you for following the blog or just checking it out here and there. It is beyond my comprehension how Barack Hussein Obama was ever elected to begin with, or how he is reasonably eligible to even put up an argument for a second term, but here we are.
“The danger to
America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like
him with the Presidency. It will be far
easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the
necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to
have such a man for their president.
The problem
is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what
ails America. Blaming the prince of fools should not blind anyone to the vast
confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a
Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a
multitude of fools, such as those who made him their President.”
-anonymous
My final words are for my family. My wonderful wife, Lindsey, I love you so much and thank you for your patience over the last 800 days and for supporting this time-consuming goal I set for myself. You are an incredible woman and, as of recently, a wonderful mom. My five-month-old son, Henry, is the best thing that has ever happened to Lindsey and I. Since he has been here it has made me run further and faster and with even more passion than ever.
Thanks again for following this blog and hopefully we will all wake up tomorrow to a befuddled mainstream media that won't be able to pick their jaws up off the ground until Romney's inaugurated.
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We are on the eve of deciding America's long-term future. We finally made it. The election is tomorrow and the people finally get to collectively speak for the first time in four years regarding the leadership of Barack Hussein Obama. In 2010, we spoke during the midterm elections and overwhelmingly rejected Obama's decisions by plucking like weeds from the unsightly garden of Congress many of those who supported what our president was selling.
What has changed since 2010? Things have only gotten worse. If America was disappointed two years ago then our nation should be enraged after four years.
Happy voting and, one way or the other, our nation is going to get exactly what it deserves, one of two extremely opposing directions, once the final ballot is cast.
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Today ends week 114 of running against Obama. I ran 1.7 miles this week, averaging 0.24 miles per day.
Today was my first run in three weeks. We are only two days away from getting Barack Hussein Obama out of the White House and not being able to run as this election reaches its end has been disappointing. I could only muster 1.7 miles today and it might have been my last run against Obama. My injury still needs time to heal but I wanted to make at least one more run.
The Carolina Panthers beat the Washington Redskins today. That's great news if you happen to want Barack Obama to be fired on Tuesday. Out of the last 18 presidential elections, since the Redskins moved to Washington in 1937, they have accurately predicted the outcome of 17 elections by simply winning or losing.
If the Redskins win the game before the election, the incumbent party wins. If they lose the game before the election, the challenger wins. The Redskins lost 21-13. It sounds like nothing more than superstition but their track record is impeccable. The only time the Redskins were wrong was during the Bush-Gore election. And they were still half-right because Gore won the popular vote.
Looking ominous for Obama.
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Here is a list of 28 papers that obviously endorsed Barack Obama 4 years ago and, as a result of his monumental failures, are now actually endorsing Mitt Romney.
“It verges on magical thinking to expect Obama to get different results in the next four years.”
–The Orlando Sentinel
3.
“More pointedly, we are disappointed in the tone of Obama’s
relentless insinuations that wealthy Americans refuse to pay their fair
share. That tone is divisive and damaging for the nation and for our
economy. It creates villains and victims, and unfairly so.”
“ The president has shown little understanding of how his
failures are affecting the nation, and he hasn’t offered any tangible
proposals to change course.”
–Reno Gazette-Journal
5.
“Obama’s signature achievement was confusing and ill-timed.
The byzantine Affordable Care Act worsened uncertainty for business
during a recession and will compound the costs of workplace benefits for
four out of five working-age Americans.”
–Florida Today
6.
“Nationally, the one thing that is needed above anything else
is job creation. Yet, the president’s economic proposal is to raise
taxes on the job-creating class. Why ever would you raise taxes on
anyone when real unemployment is around 15 percent? That defies all
economic theories. Let’s face it: Romney is more of a businessman than a
politician. You can resent his wealth all you want, but he has a proven
record as a turnaround artist.”
–The Daily Tribune, Royal Oak, MI
7.
“As Texans, it is a particular vexation that this president’s
attitude toward the interests of our state has occasionally bordered on
contempt, particularly in decisions relating to the NASA budget and the
energy sector.”
–Houston Chronicle
8.
“President Obama’s steps to get spending under control and
reduce the debt are too tentative, and again hark back to his inability
to possess the leadership to break the partisan gridlock in Congress.”
“Instead of taking charge in Washington, Obama has shown
unwillingness to take even the most basic step in presidential
leadership: picking up the Oval Office phone to bring his influence to
bear on reluctant representatives and senators.”
–Los Angeles Daily News
10.
“Romney is an agent of change whose primary campaign thrust
has been the economy and his plans and qualifications to improve it.”
–Fort Worth Star-Telegram
11.
“But today, rather than articulate a compelling vision for
growth, the president falls back on the tired talking point of
increasing taxes for the wealthy.”
– Sun Sentinel Fort Lauderdale, FL
12.
“The president laments congressional gridlock that fomented
under the inflammatory leadership of Rep. Nancy Pelosi and Sen. Harry
Reid. The president’s deference to their reckless rhetoric further
deepened congressional divide.”
–Quad-City Times
13.
“Four years ago, the editorial board’s willingness to change
horses in the middle of a churning river led us to call for voters to
break the Republican hold on the White House and try a Democrat with a
fresh spark. Today, it leads the editorial board to urge voters to say
“enough” to a Democratic administration whose sincere best has turned
out disappointing, and install a seasoned leader with a record of fixing
problems.”
–Long Beach Press-Telegram
14.
“Four years ago, we recommended Barack Obama be elected. He
offered himself as someone who could bridge the wide chasm between
Democrats and Republicans. However, after four years, the situation
has worsened.”
–Pensacola News Journal
15.
“Mr. Obama may have great ideas, but if he can’t get them
through Congress — and there’s no reason to think anything on that
account will change after Nov. 6 — they are worthless.”
–The Reporter
16.
“Some of the warnings about Obama’s lack of legislative and
leadership skills have come true over the past four years. It is not
worth risking the state of our economy for the next four years to see
whether his learning curve really is behind him.”
“Class warfare might be a successful strategy for cobbling
together 270 electoral votes. But it’s not the way to unite a divided
nation. The president comes to town on a Monday, takes our money, shakes
our hands and tells us how much he values the CEOs and innovators of
New York. And then on Tuesday, he turns around and refers to business
leaders as fat cat bankers whose success was created by the sweat of
others. That’s not a friend. That’s not a leader. That’s a politician.”
–The New York Observer
18.
“Voters may well wonder if Obama even knows what it means to get spending under control.”
– Billings Gazette
19.
“Instead of following through on his hope-and-change message, Obama keeps telling us the limits of hope and change.”
“In 2008, an unproven Obama promised things would turn out
differently with him in charge. “Change we can believe in” is how he put
it. Four years later we realize it was all made up.”
–Fitchburg Sentinel & Enterprise
21.
“It was the vision of hope and change that convinced us four
years ago to support then-Sen. Barack Obama over Sen. John McCain.
Today, there is little hope in how another four years of an
Obama administration would swiftly and effectively lift our country out
of its economic doldrums, and there is little change in how Washington
operates.”
–Cape Cod Times
22.
“Good intentions, repeated promises and lofty rhetoric are no
substitute for sound economics and a foreign policy grounded in realism
and strength.” “Obama spent a year to win razor-thin passage of a divisive
law that has spawned fights over expensive mandates, new taxes and
infringement of religious liberties.”
“It is true that in 2008 we endorsed the change promised
by Obama, but the reality today is – four years later – we have little
confidence Obama will be more successful managing the economy and the
budget going forward. Indeed, we feel change is needed again. And we
believe Romney fills that ticket.”
“Sure, funding for public broadcasting is an insignificant
part of the budget, but if Obama isn’t even willing to cut one
one-hundreth of 1 percent of federal spending for something that is
non-vital to America, then the president is not serious about reducing
spending at all. If Obama is not serious about that, he is the wrong person for the job.”
“But here’s the rub: Obama has had four years. What
improvements he’s overseen are largely incremental. Instead, lectures
become excuses. And the excuses wear thin. Eventually, Obama’s words,
meant for Romney, blow back: Where’s the plan? Where does this White
House administration see America in four years? In all of that
campaigning, that plan didn’t emerge.”
– Journal And Courier, Lafayette,IN
26.
“This administration from day one has waged a deplorable
crusade to kill coal mining jobs, and to close coal-fired power plants,
through a politically motivated Environmental Protection Agency.”
“President Obama has strong support among women and ethnic
minorities, but his avowed goal of bringing together all Americans
remains only a faint dream. After four years, he has run out of time.”
Brilliant. This video has earned a special place as the perfect argument against Barack Obama and his liberal counterparts. As much as we feebly attempt to make sense of national affairs and our economy, and argue about what paths and what futures we should lead America toward---along comes this guy and he distills all of the chaos into a perfect perspective through the lens of children.
We were once those little kids in the video above. That candy was the currency we now know as money. And, as fun as Halloween is, it is still work through a child's eyes. It is hard work for a reward they feel they earned. They are hustling to get to as many houses as they can to fill their bags up as much as they can, just as we adults hustle to seize as many opportunities as we can to fill our savings as much as possible. It is no different.
The world through those children's eyes and the candy they earn tonight is no different than the realities before us and the hours you worked today. If you really want to prepare your child for the mature world he is only years from embarking upon, take 30 percent of his candy each Halloween and give it to other kids who have less. If your kid gets 10 Christmas gifts or 20 Easter eggs, take 3 gifts and 6 eggs and explain to him or her that they automatically have to give them to someone else.
To really put things into perspective, from one adult to another, on average, you do not begin earning money for the work you perform until mid-April of every year. Every day you work for the first 3 1/2 months of every year is for federal, state, and local government. We give them more than the first three months of every penny we earn and here they are asking for more after the federal government has plummeted into $16 trillion of debt.
Those kids have every right to be pissed and so do you.
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Obama's looking like a cat on a hot tin roof. And rightly so---he deserves every tight corner he gets backed into for what he's done, or failed to do, over the last four years. Eight more days until we get this guy out!
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This is one of the most strange Obama interviews I've ever seen. The local Colorado news anchor is a master of the passive-aggressive interview technique and he rips into Obama without even raising his voice once. Very entertaining. Barack Obama kept his cool but you can tell he was getting more and more pissed with every lie that was passing through his lips.
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This is a really cool site with an array of graphic depictions showing how wastefully our government spends the tax dollars we work so hard to earn. Check it out!
Less than two weeks to go. Barack Obama has had four years and his record speaks for itself. If it had been George Bush's record, or any Republican's for that matter, they would be out thanks to our ever-noble, responsible, fair and unbiased media---but not Barack Obama. Between "Fast and Furious" and the lies that are mounting regarding Benghazi, alone, George Bush or any other Republican would have been taken apart by now---but not Barack Obama.
The only justice left to wield on this man is in the hands of the voter and his proverbial sentence should be life in Chicago.
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Today ends week 112 of running against Obama. I ran 0.0 miles this week, averaging 0.00 miles per day.
Still on the injured list. I underestimated how long it would take for my toe to heal and it doesn't feel like it will be better any time soon. Hopefully I can squeeze one last run out, at least on the day of the election. That has been my vision to get me through the last 784 days of running and blogging every day for the last twenty-five months. That vision has been one final run to my voting precinct to cast my vote and to run back home and watch the evening unfold as Barack Obama receives the justice that only America's voters can pass.
In the news today, the UN has formally warned Americans of voting for Mitt Romney. Just when I thought I could not have been more convinced to vote for Mitt Romney, United Nations comes along and warns me not to. I'm more sold than ever. I have always made a resolute effort to refrain from vulgarity on this blog and to not use expletives but, here on Day784, I find it necessary ,more now than ever to say that the UN can kiss my ass.
America has a Constitution, which is clearly written and intended to be obeyed. There is nothing about the UN or the idea that this entire planet should be ruled by one world order in the United States Constitution.
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A total of 538 electoral votes. Divide that by two and a presidential election will end in a tie. It's only happened once in American history (1824) but could this be the repeat year? Here's what you may not know.
In the event that two presidential candidates end an election in a tie of 269 votes each, rather than reaching the almighty 271 for the win, the House of Representatives (the incoming Congress of 2013), which will more than likely be heavily populated with Republicans after November 6, will be the sole deciding factor. That's right---I don't think it is the best contingency plan but if a tie does occur it's a good time to be a conservative.
It gets even stranger. The Senate decides who the vice president will be. We could potentially have a Romney/Biden ticket or an Obama/Ryan ticket.
Check out this link for more details on how controversial this outcome could be.
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Here's your top 10 Obama lies from last night's debate. It is exhausting to watch that man speak. He is a shameless liar and he's not even good at it. He's been feeding us the exact same garbage about the auto bailout, success of his economic recovery, unemployment numbers, and wrongfully claiming credit for drilling for his entire term. It is so frustrating to watch his lips move as he blatantly lies to the entire country about so many things that can so easily be disproven by the simple numbers and statistics that define and demonstrate his numerous failures over the last four years.
10. "I told you I would cut taxes for middle-class families, and I did. I told you I’d cut taxes for small businesses, and I have." President Barack Obama has made this claim repeatedly during the campaign, but it is not true, as even the liberal Huffington Postacknowledges. The few tax cuts that Obama did enact--such as the temporary payroll tax holiday--were short-term, or conditional. Furthermore, as the Romney campaign has often pointed out, Obama has raised many taxes on the middle class, including the infamous Obamacare "penalty," and his taxes on "millionaires and billionaires" would hit small businesess.
9. "...[H]e was asked, is it fair for somebody like you, making $20 million a year, to pay a lower tax rate than a nurse or a bus driver....And he said, yes, I think that’s fair." Obama was referring to Romney's recent 60 Minutes interview. But the transcript reveals Obama was not telling the truth. Romney was not saying it was fair that higher income should be taxed at a lower rate. He was referring specifically to the principle that capital gains should be taxed lower than other income because it has been taxed once already--a principle, incidentally, that Obama agrees with in his own tax policy.
8. "He called the Arizona law a model for the nation." Obama tried to knock Romney's immigration policy while at the same time accusing him of flip-flopping on the issue. But as Romney pointed out, he was referring specifically to the e-Verify part of the law--the requirement of instant verification of workers' legal status. That provision is even favored by unions. Obama made it seem Romney praised the law as a whole--which he had not. He went on to say that he himself objected to the provision that allowed police to check suspected illegal immigrants' documentation--but that provision survived a challenge at the Supreme Court.
7. "I want to make sure our timekeepers are working here." For the third debate in a row, the Democratic candidate complained that he was not receiving as much time to speak as the Republican. And for the third debate in a row, the Obama/Biden ticket actually spoke for longer--much longer--than the Romney/Ryan ticket, a testament to the ability of the incumbents to pressure the moderators, and the susceptibility of the left-leaning moderators to such pressure. Obama received a full three minutes more time in last night's debate--and the percentage difference was even higher at one point in the proceedings.
6. "They rely on it for mammograms." Obama attacked Romney's proposal to cut off federal funding to Planned Parenthood by claiming that the organization provides mammograms to women to help prevent breast cancer. It's been a repeated claim made by the left for months. The problem is that it's just untrue--and even left-leaning mainstream media fact-checkers have acknowledged that. What is perhaps worse than Obama's misleading claim about mammograms is the unsupported implication that Romney wants to deny life-saving health care to women--a cheap shot to which Romney was given no chance to respond.
5. "You can ship jobs overseas and get tax breaks for it." We have heard the same lie for eight years from Obama. In 2004, he ran for U.S. Senate from Illinois on a promise to end such tax breaks. He did it again when he ran for President of the United States in 2008. And yet he has never done anything about it--because there are no such tax breaks. There is merely a deduction that companies can take for moving, even within the U.S.--and which helps offset the double taxation of U.S. businesses abroad, which would make American companies less competitive. Repealing it would ship jobs overseas, actually.
4. "And the production is up....What you’re saying is just not true." Obama contested a claim by Romney that production of oil and gas is down on federal lands. He even accused Romney of not telling the truth. But Romney was right--exactly right, down to the percentage decline. Furthermore, Obama's claim that he has been increasing oil and gas production on federal lands flies in the face of recent policy decisions, such as closing off a large part of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to further development. Obama has tried to take credit for expansion on private lands, while opposing expansion wherever possible.
3. "In what new ways do you intend to rectify the inequalities in the workplace, specifically regarding females making only 72 percent of what their male counterparts earn?" The false premise from a member of the audience was especially egregious because her question had been selected in advance by the moderator. The supposed wage gap between men and women for the same work is largely a myth. As Diana Furchtgott-Roth pointed out: "Women make about 95 percent of what their male counterparts earn, if the male counterparts are in the same job with the same experience."
2. "He wanted to take them into bankruptcy without providing them any way to stay open." After Obama accused Romney of wanting American auto manufacturers to go bankrupt, Romney pointed out that Obama had, in fact, taken the auto companies through bankruptcy. Obama's retort was to accuse Romney of wanting to take the companies bankrupt in order to put them out of business--a blatant lie. Romney actually suggested in his famous 2008 op-ed: "In a managed bankruptcy, the federal government would propel newly competitive and viable automakers, rather than seal their fate with a bailout check."
1. "He did call it an act of terror." The worst untruth told by a moderator in presidential history. Candy Crowley's intervention in favor of Obama caused the president's cheering section to burst into applause, in violation of the rules, and there was little that Romney could say in response. But she was wrong--Obama's reference to "acts of terror" in his Sep. 12 statement was in a general, abstract sense, and came long after he had described the 9/11 attacks on U.S. diplomatic missions as demonstrations against an anti-Islamic video. Even Crowley seemed to realize what she had done: it wasn't long before she walked back her own comment.
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(1) Political change happens, but suspension of the laws of gravity
does not. Over a lifetime advising candidates in this country and
abroad, some things have never changed:
-The oldest, most significant question in history of U.S. public
opinion polling: Asked of voters “Is the country on the right or wrong
track?” No incumbent underwater on this question–including very
impressive candidates for dog catcher–gets re-elected. For more than two
years, across the board, voter response to this central question has
consistently been greater than 2 to 1 wrong track.
-”Independents.” Pretend what you wish, independents weren’t born
politically a-sexual. The vast majority of them are, and will vote,
Republican.
-Much like “right/wrong track,” one of the profound metrics or
indicators in a presidential campaign is a president who cannot hit 50
percent approval among voters. Obama has consistently failed to reach 50
percent in over two years. Uh Oh.
-The single-most important signifier in the history of American
campaigns is “Economy/Jobs.” Under Obama, the nation’s performance in
this area sucks. People know it. I can’t promise you Obama can’t get
elected with these numbers, but I can promise you nobody ever has.
(2) Everything we think we “know” about this election is based
exclusively on polls, which despite enjoying the undue respect of the
public are utter sh**. There are maybe five pollsters in America who
could not successfully be sued for malpractice. There is nothing so
common and useless in American media/”politics” than inept polls. Worse,
it is easy and cheap to produce a “poll,” which hustlers and newspapers
(forgive the redundancy), know is obviously inaccurate. Good polls, by
good pollsters, are very difficult to produce ad very expensive.
The New York Times doesn’t want am accurate poll; they want the
cheapest poll they can report by day-after-tomorrow. They do this by
ignoring virtually all the tenets of a good poll in favor of
quick/cheap/bad polls – which have an added advantage for the MSM: they
polls guaranteed to yield liberal results.
Why are these polls inaccurate? Of 100 Americans eligible to vote,
only circa 1/3 of us turn out. So when you talk to non-voters (2/3 of
the sample), you get non-results. But bad pollsters don’t care about
that minor detail! They want a headline.
Most of the bad polls we see today are based on voter turn out models of
2008. Why? There has been a national election since then: 2010.
Difference is Obama voters turned out/won 2008 – Tea Party/Patriots
turned out in 2010.
Bottom line, the majority of polls we see are garbage. Average results of 10 bad polls, know what that yields? One bad average.
The Real polling in this – and every campaign – is being done in
strictest confidence by top pollsters, at a cost of $1Million+ Per
Month! Know what NBC Pays per month for its polling? Same as your
electric bill.
Think that affects quality of results?!
Most polls/pollsters showing Obama ahead are Wrong. Demonstrably
Wrong. Intentional Obama Propaganda. The media won’t report it, because
the media is the culprit. If you want good polls check out Doug Schoen,
Scott Rasmussen, or Pat Caddell.
(3) Watch for the “Silent Majority.” Per Ann Coulter’s latest
blockbuster, “Mugged”, racial politics permeate our politics. Pity. The
major effect it will have on this election is that many people, in my
professional opinion, are intimidated at work, among friends and in
public to express a pro-Romney viewpoint – inasmuch as that equals an
“anti-Obama” viewpoint. Which of course equals a “racist” opinion.
Ask yourself: how many men and women just clam up at work or parties, rather than be labeled ‘racist?’
That is a theory. Until my dear friend Ann Coulter appeared on my
BlazeRadioShow last week and told the story of a man who brought home a
Romney lawn sign, in reaction to which his wife recoiled in horror,
saying “You’re not going to put THAT on our lawn! Everyone will think
we’re Racists!”
No, we’re against Obama, socialism, and for Romney. While we may eschew lawn signs, we do – and will – vote robustly.
(4) “Undecideds.”
-About 10 percent of the electorate who will in the end vote, remain “Undecided.”
-In no national election in recorded US history has an incumbent won
the majority of Undecideds in the final days. If you have an incumbent
president that has already served four years, and now in the heat of an
election you still can’t bring yourself to support him, you are going to
do what late Undecided voters have always done: vote heavily for the
challenger. Mitt will capture 70% of Undecided vote in closing days,
easy.
(5) A greater percent of Romney supporters are going to turn out than
Obama voters. In 2008, there was a gap between Republican and Democrat
voter turn out. In a 4 percent race, that made the difference. In 2012,
there again will be a big turn out gap. This time, it’s ours.
Mister Mentum, first name “Mo,” will amplify this result. MO has,
undeniably, parachuted in again, unannounced but subtle as a mule kick
for one candidate: Romney. In my professional estimation, this was
inevitable – but is tangibly derivative of The ROMNEY-obama debate.
Unaccustomed to being challenged (or correct), President Obama was
absolutely overwhelmed by Romney’s superior knowledge, style and, yes,
truth.
Ask yourself: Do you honestly expect Obama to beat Romney – in two
debates? Me neither. (In fact, if Obama doesn’t absolutely dazzle next
Tuesday night, most voters who watch Debates won’t bother to watch 3rd
contest.)
As of several days ago, unless Obama changes the fundamental dynamic
of this campaign, “On Any Given Tuesday” – he loses this election. Look
at the size/enthusiasm of the candidate crowds over the past 10 days.
This is a reaction to the profound difference between a wasted, libelous
$100Million Obama TV Ad brutalization of Romney as a Monster.
Guess what? Voters suddenly saw and intuitively embraced the real
Mitt Romney – the difference between Obama Night and Romney Daylight.
Remember the old electric Obama pre-election magic?
“Under new management.”
As will be the United States of America, in roughly two weeks.
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Today ends week 111 of running against Obama. I ran 3.4 miles this week, averaging 0.49 miles per day.
It's been six days since my last run against Obama. This is the longest I've gone without running in the last 777 days and I think I'll be ready to ease back into it starting tomorrow. I think my toe may have been fractured but I am convinced it is not broken. It's black and blue and hurts but I want to end this 800 day goal strongly.
Here's the latest green energy company burning and crashing. Vestas, a Danish wind turbine company that received over $50 million in stimulus tax dollars announced Friday it has laid off more than 800 workers in North America and Canada and may be forced to lay off another 800 soon.
I found this from July 24, 2012, a list of stimulus-funded green energy companies that have gone bankrupt:
Abound Solar (Loveland, Colorado), manufacturer of thin film photovoltaic modules.
Beacon Power (Tyngsborough, Massachusetts), designed and developed
advanced products and services to support stable, reliable and efficient
electricity grid operation.
Ener1 (Indianapolis, Indiana), built compact lithium-ion-powered battery solutions for hybrid and electric cars.
Energy Conversion Devices (Rochester Hills, Michigan/Auburn Hills,
Michigan), manufacturer of flexible thin film photovoltaic (PV)
technology and a producer of batteries and other renewable
energy-related products.
Evergreen Solar, Inc. (Marlborough, Massachusetts), manufactured and installed solar panels.
Mountain Plaza, Inc. (Dandridge, Tennessee), designed and implemented “truck-stop electrification” technology.
Olsen’s Crop Service and Olsens Mills Acquisition Co. (Berlin, Wisconsin), a private company producing ethanol.
Range Fuels (Soperton, Georgia), tried to develop a technology that converted biomass into ethanol without the use of enzymes.
Raser Technologies (Provo, Utah), geothermal power plants and technology licensing.
Solyndra (Fremont, California), manufacturer of cylindrical panels of thin-film solar cells.
Spectrawatt (Hopewell, New York), solar cell manufacturer.
Thompson River Power LLC (Wayzata, Minnesota), designed and
developed advanced products and services to support stable, reliable and
efficient electricity grid operation.
