Thursday, January 5, 2012

Barker's Newsbites: Thursday, January 5, 2012


God bless Sarah McKinley!

9:00 a.m. - Two hard-boiled eggs sliced up upon one slice of whole grain oat bread (toasted, with a smear of mustard) with a couple shakes of sea salt.

Oh... btw... on my second cup of coffee...

To be continued...

11:30 a.m. - A light fat free blueberry yogurt prior to heading to the gym!

To be continued...

Great workout at the gym: 12 miles total on the upright and low bikes - over 400 calories burned in 55 minutes.

2:30 p.m. - Chicken salad on one slice of whole grain oat toast with a pickle.

4:30 p.m. - One grapefruit.

To be continued...

6:00 p.m. - Two carrots with a bit (60 calories, tops) of dip.

8:00 p.m. - Sandwich (two slices whole grain oat bread, three slices ham, three slices turkey, lettuce, sweet pickle slices, a bit of mayo, mustard, and maybe 2 ounces of cheese) plus a dill pickle.

9:15 p.m. - One grapefruit.

9:45 p.m. - Half cup (maybe less) of roasted chick peas with spices and grated parmesan/romano cheese.

10:30 p.m. - One of those tiny chocolate booze bottles.

Goodnight!

1 comment:

William R. Barker said...

http://www.ajc.com/business/georgia-ethanol-plant-sold-1289567.html

The failed Range Fuels wood-to-ethanol factory in southeastern Georgia that sucked up $65 million in federal and state tax dollars was sold Tuesday for pennies on the dollar...

(*SARCASTIC CLAP-CLAP-CLAP*)

LanzaTech, a New Zealand-based biofuel company, paid $5.1 million for the plant in Soperton.

* OH, HO, HO... GET THIS FOLKS:

LanzaTech's main financial backer - Vinod Khosla, a California entrepreneur who also bankrolled Range Fuels, and helped secure its government loans, before Range went bust last year.

* AND ROUND AND ROUND THE CRONYISM GOES!

LanzaTech hasn't received the same type of loans, but the company has received $7 million from the U.S. departments of Energy and Transportation to assist in the development of alternative fuels.

(*JUST SHAKING MY HEAD*)

* FOLKS... RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR FACES... AND WE SIT HERE AND TAKE IT!

(*STILL SHAKING MY HEAD*)

The Range fiasco harkens other, failed renewable energy companies that received major taxpayer funding. California solar panel maker Solyndra got $535 million in federal loan guarantees. Beacon Power of Massachusetts, which makes energy-storage equipment, took in $43 million in federal money. Both filed for bankruptcy last year.

Range cost U.S. taxpayers $64 million and Georgia taxpayers another $6.2 million. (Tuesday's sale netted $5.1 million which will help offset losses suffered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.)

The Bush administration's Energy Department steered a $76 million federal grant to Range. The Department of Agriculture followed up with an $80 million loan guarantee. Georgia officials pledged $6.2 million. Treutlen County, one of the state's poorest, offered 20 years worth of tax abatements and 97 acres in its industrial park.

* YA CAN'T MAKE THIS SHIT UP, FOLKS! HOW'DO'YA LIKE BIPARTISANSHIP SO FAR?!