Gore associate said to be named in brewing ethics scandal

This is not new though, is it? I remember reading a similar thing a few months back regarding Cathy Zoi being in a position to give business to her husband’s firm. Is there a conflict of interest? Absolutely. Has a crime been committed? I doubt it. The real question though is the reaction of the American people. In Russia, Italy and other corrupt countries this is simply seen as perks of the job. The Mayor of Moscow has put millions in contracts into his wife’s business and nobody bats and eye.

Gail Combs (08:00:49) : “I thought it was the Obama/Gore/Maurice Strong gate: aka the Chicago Climate Exchange. Might as well name all the key players”. Nice one, Gail Combs !!! Hit ’em with the truth !!

Thanks to “Climate Gate” environment things now become transparent. In other countries, past, future and present, where governments have grown too much, the fastest way -and in some places, the only way-to reach a “decent” way of living it is by “making money” through the government. There are only two choices: To be poor or to “work” for the government.

Uh, looks like this was all refuted by the company over 3 months ago:
http://blog.seriousmaterials.com/?p=1007
Nice try, though, guys. Better luck next time.

I found this titbit in the article revealing:-
“…“Smart meters,” put simply, are electric meters that return information about customer power usage to the power company immediately and allow a power company to control the amount of power a customer can consume. These smart meters are a central component of the Obama administration’s plans to reduce electricity consumption as part of the “smart grid.”
In a rare moment of candor, Obama “Energy Czar” Carol Browner said to US News & World Report last year: “We need to make sure that …[e]ventually, we can get to a system where an electric company will be able [sic] to hold back some of the power so that maybe your air conditioner won’t operate at its peak, you’ll still be able to cool your house, but that’ll be a savings to the consumer.”
Clearly, DoE funding to encourage the adoption of “smart meters” would very likely lead to much increased sales by Landis+Gyr — and a potential windfall for Zoi. But surely Zoi doesn’t participate in the relevant “energy efficiency” policy? ,,,”
Not sure she needs to be directly involved in the decision, when she has an advocate like Carol Browner working at the coal-face.

The Obama adm. is essentially a “Commie in the Candy Store”, dedicated to at least looting America at large of all possible present and future productivity via taxation and gigantic deficit spending, and otherwise taking “wealth” from anyone who who has anything at all to get/loot = “too much”, then redirecting enough of it to Obama adm. cronies and supporters to possibly buy enough votes and kicked-back support to continue doing it as long as possible.
Destroying America per se is an added Progressive “value”/Commie Cult fetish: ~”America with its evil White ‘Racist’ ‘Imperialist’ Capitalists deserves it.” It’s the Progressive/Commie version of Gordon Gekko’s, “Greed is good,” with a special “progressive” emphasis on the destruction of anything having real value.
Me, “I hope he fails.”

Zoilent green gate

It’s an ethics scandal, alright, but it isn’t new.

Gore hope it does not end in what this name means: the shedding of blood resulting in murder, battue, bloodshed, bloodletting, bloodbat. All caused by abhorrence, abomination, anathema, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, black beast, bother, bugbear, bête noire, detestation, disgust, enmity, execration, frost*, grievance, gripe, hatred, horror, hostility, ill will, irritant, loathing, malevolence, malignity, mislike, nasty look, no love lost, nuisance, objection, odium, pain, rancor, rankling, repugnance, repulsion, resentment, revenge, revulsion, scorn, spite, trouble, venom.
Wow! if not the anti-christ, what else? ☺ Anyone a vaccine against it?

Dave (08:53:56) :
…Besides how can a guy with no ethics have a ethical scandal?
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Now I have to clean all that tea off my computer screen…. I can’t because I am still laughing too hard.

I reviewed the updated link to the article, and as someone already said, by Washington standards this isn’t earth shattering. Clear conflict of interest yes, but not earth shattering.
What struck me more was the reference to the smart power meters. Does this administration really believe that they can impose government regulated maximum power use to the average consumer? On the premise that it is saving the consumer money by not letting them run their own air conditioners for their own good? Are you kidding me? Is that for real? Gotta go now, see my stock broker, find out who are the dominant players in home sized power generators, I can see their market picking up soon… until the rationing cards for fuel come out of course….