Fun Facts About the 50 States: Oregon

Welcome to Fun Facts About the 50 States, where – week by week – I’ll be taking you on a tour around this great nation of ours, providing you with interesting, yet completely useless and probably untrue, information about each of the 50 states.
This week, we’ll be desperately pleading with grandpa not to change his will before his physician-assisted suicide appointment because we’re headed to Oregon. So let’s get started…
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Oregon’s is the only state flag with a two-sided design, making Oregon the state most likely to become a Batman villain.

* Oregon became the 33rd state on February 14th, 1859. Historians speculate that this date was chosen by then-president James Buchanan so that Mrs. Buchanan wouldn’t notice that he neglected to get her a Valentine’s Day present. Bloodstains on the family rolling pin provide evidence that his plan failed.
* The capital of Oregon is Salem, which has nothing to do with witch-burning, despite claims to the contrary by members of the Oregon chapter of Recovered Newts Anonymous.
* The state flower of Oregon is the Oregon grape, whose fruit is said to rival that of the greatest French vineyards, even though Oregonian wine lacks the cowardly and annoying bouquet of its French competitors.
* Oregon license plates come in a variety of colorful designs, but all contain the phrase “Where Old Hippies Come To Die”.
* Oregon is nicknamed “The Beaver State”. For you city-folk, a beaver is a smelly, hairy, bucktoothed animal with a wide, flat tail. Sorta like a feminist, except less prone to rabid frothing.
* Oregon has more ghost towns than any other state. However, please note that moving to one of them will NOT increase your chances of scoring with Patrick Swayze.
* Which could be either a bug or a feature, depending on which way you swing.
* Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge is considered by many to offer the world’s best windsurfing. Of course, those “many” are mostly people who think it’s funny to watch windsurfers crash into rocks.
* Oregon’s Crater Lake is the deepest lake in America. The bottom reaches all the way to Hell, and will become the source of the eternally leaky roof used to torture Bob Vila after he dies.
* Like New Jersey, Oregon has no self-serve gas stations. The idea is to provide jobs for folks who aren’t quite bright enough to master the phrase “fries with that?” and other people who vote Democrat.
* The Coast Douglas Fir – at 329 feet – was the tallest tree in the state until it was cut down to make “Save the Spotted Owl” flyers for the Sierra Club.
* Oregon’s state nut is the Hazelnut. Oregon is the only state with an official state nut, since Michigan’s Michael Moore is technically classified as a “lunatic”.
* The town of Boring, Oregon, was named for its founder, W.H. Boring, and NOT because the town’s only TV station shows nothing but reruns of Everybody Loves Raymond.
* The world’s largest sea-cave is located near Florence, Oregon, and is populated mostly by round-bellied sharks and shredded wetsuits.
* Oregon’s Heceta Head Lighthouse is the most photographed lighthouse in the nation, due in large part to its scenic quaintness. At least according to its 36-24-36 nudist lighthouse keeper.
* Eugene, Oregon is rated the best cycling community in the US by “Cycling Magazine”. It’s also the nation’s top consumer of “Lance Armstrong Brand Undetectable Injectable Testosterone”.
* There are nine lighthouses still standing along the Oregon coastline. Five are still in use, the other four were sold as advertising space for Viagra.
* The Columbia Gorge Interpretive Center contains the world’s largest collection of rosaries, although not quite enough to keep Ted Kennedy from going to Hell, where he’ll share a house with Bob Vila.
* The Seaside Aquarium was the first to successfully breed harbor seals in captivity. They credit their success to cheap wine and Barry White CD’s.
* Salem’s capitol building is topped by a statue titled “Oregon Pioneer”, which features a drunken French-Candadian fur-trader in the midst of hollering “Where do you guys keep the beaver around here?”.
* The International Museum of Carousel Art in Hood River, Oregon contains the world’s largest collection of carousel horses and is known to the locals as the “Wooden Glue Factory”.
* Every house in Bickelton, Oregon has a bluebird house built onto it. It’s as though Hitchcock filmed “The Birds” in Stepford.
* The origins of Oregon’s name are shrouded in mystery, although the most popular theory is that it was derived from an incident during the Lewis & Clark expedition where they lost a canoe paddle on the Columbia river.
* Which would also explain Oregon’s other nickname – “the bad pun state”.
* Eugene, Oregon was the first city in the US to have one-way streets, effectively halving the number of times motorists get harrassed by the same squeegee guy.
* The state motto of Oregon is “Alis Volat Propiis” – Latin for “Canada’s THAT way, ya draft-dodging hippie”.
* Oregon’s state fish is the Chinook Salmon, which is on the verge of extinction, since it’s not cute & fluffy enough for environmentalists to give a crap about.
* Portland, Oregon, is home to the International Rose Test Garden, where researchers recently developed a Super Rose, beautiful enough to buy forgiveness for a 3 a.m. stumbling-drunk return from a strip club.
* Tillamook is the site of Oregon’s largest cheese factory and, coincidentally, Oregon’s largest mouse-trap factory.
* At 8000 feet deep, Hell’s Canyon is the deepest river gorge in North America. A scale model of it can be seen by observing the trickle of sweat continuously running along the bottom of one of Michael Moore’s belly-folds.
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That wraps up the Oregon edition of Fun Facts About the 50 States. Next week we’ll be suckered into paying $100 for a “genuine” piece of Ben Franklin’s kite as we visit Pennsylvania.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’ve gotta go out and buy me a Super Rose

The largest

Scientists have found a really large thing in a distant galaxy. They took a year to study and recheck the data, and they’re pretty convinced that this really big things exists.
The galaxy known as NGC 1277 — though I don’t think the people that live there call it that — is about 250 million light years from Earth. In the middle of it, is a really large black hole.

The giant black hole is about 11 times as wide as the orbit of Neptune around our sun, researchers said. The mass is so far above normal that the scientists took a year to double-check and submit their research paper for publication, according to the study’s lead author, Remco van den Bosch.

Now, unless you just happen to know the size of the orbit of Neptune, all you can know is that it’s pretty big. My math is that Neptune’s orbit is around 5.6 zillion miles. Maybe billion — I’m not that good at math. And 11 times that is … well, it’s a lot.
And that’s a black hole. The thing is huge.
But, is it the largest thing there is?
I think not. I can think of a few things that might be larger, either in size or mass.
Like what? I’m glad you asked.

• The debt
• Obama’s ego
• Liberal stupidity
• The handbasket the country is going to hell in
• Your tax bill
• Next year’s debt

What did I miss? Ideas?

7 Rounds

So New York State is getting close to passing a new gun control law in which they are going to limit magazines to seven rounds. They already had laws limiting magazines to ten rounds, but apparently some super genius there was like, “I know the problem with gun violence: three too many rounds!”
This is just profoundly stupid. I mean, really, what’s three less rounds a magazine supposed to accomplish? And since it should be trivially easy to get higher capacity magazines from out of state and I doubt anyone ready to murder people with a gun is going to worry about having an illegal magazine, this is a law that will exclusively affect law abiding gun owners, perhaps making criminals out of many people who were never going to harm anyone. And if for some magic reason it did get criminals to have magazines with only seven rounds in it — this helps me how? The mugger can only shoot me seven times?
Anyone who votes for this law should be immediately be committed as they obviously do not have the mental capacity of an adult. In fact, were I president, I would send in the National Guard to apprehend all of New York’s legislature and its governor and send them to a mental health facility for their own protection. And then I’d tell New York to try governing itself for a year before electing any more officials to help them get perspective. We have to crack down on stupid people wielding power if we want this nation to survive. And we won’t have have justice until most of the politicians out there trying to wield power they shouldn’t have are locked up and given constant psych evaluations.

Fun Facts About the 50 States: Oklahoma

Welcome to Fun Facts About the 50 States, where – week by week – I’ll be taking you on a tour around this great nation of ours, providing you with interesting, yet completely useless and probably untrue, information about each of the 50 states.
This week, we’ll be visiting the state where, when a man says “mine’s bigger”, he’s talking about his belt buckle, because we’re headed to Oklahoma. So let’s get started…
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The Oklahoma flag’s design is loosely based on a painting titled “Emergency Drumsticks”.

* Oklahoma was admitted to the union as the 46th state on November 16th, 1907, in order to fill a diversity quota for states that vaguely resemble cookware.
* The state flower of Oklahoma is mistletoe. Its berries are deadly poisonous, which is convenient since there’s really nothing to live for in Oklahoma, anyway.
* Oklahoma’s name comes from the Choctaw Indian word “oka-oma”, which means “mobile home destroyed by tornado”.
* The state song of Oklahoma is, as you would expect, the title song from the musical “Oklahoma”. Which doesn’t make the residents of the state gay. Unless they actually LIKE the song.
* The world’s first parking meter was installed in Oklahoma City, and was seen as a reasonable alternative to the previous method of controlling parking time – throwing a dead skunk on the hood of the vehicle after 30 minutes.
* Although most residents of Vinita, Oklahoma, were pleased to become the first city in the state to receive electricity in 1871, city hall was soon inundated by complaints from citizens who were unable to make their VCR’s stop blinking “12:00″.
* Oklahoma City has an operating oil well on its capitol grounds. Despite numerous attempts to have it removed, Mr. Clampett firmly refuses to sell.
* Duncan, Oklahoma is home to a life-size statue of a cattle drive, titled, “I Crap Bigger Than You”.
* Boise City, Oklahoma was the only city in the US to be bombed during World War II. In 1943, a US B-17 bomber dropped 6 practice bombs on the town as a warning to other cities that were still selling sauerkraut instead of “Liberty Cabbage”.
* Okmulgee, Oklahoma holds the record for the world’s largest pecan pie. It was 60 feet in diameter, and contained over 300,000 pecans, as well as a dozen squirrels who didn’t get out of the nut bin in time.
* The state motto of Oklahoma is “labor omnia vincit”, which means “my brother was an extra in ‘Twister’”.
* Oklahoma residents are known as “Sooners”, after the disreputable people who made homestead claims prior to the official start time of noon on April 22nd, 1889. Personally, I don’t like the nickname because it makes light of a serious offense. It’s like referring to terrorists who blow up children as “baby boomers”.
* The National Cowboy Hall of Fame is located in Oklahoma City. Whaddya wanna bet that Terrell Owens throws a fit because they won’t induct him?
* Every April, the city of Beaver, Oklahoma, holds the World Championship Cow Chip Throw. It’s the one time of year where the phrase “You wanna watch me fling poo?” actually works as a pick-up line.
* Sylvan Goldman of Oklahoma City invented the modern shopping cart, enabling the homeless at last to transport their worldly goods without the use of Sherpas.
* Jenks, Oklahoma, is home to more antique stores than any other city, and has more useless, outdated, unworkable items than a Democractic Party platform.
* The first capital city of Oklahoma was Guthrie, but it was later moved to Oklahoma City, since no one wanted their state to be associated with a crappy folk singer.
* I mean, “You can get anything you want blah, blah, blah” over and over and over. Doesn’t that song ever freakin’ END?
* At over a mile in length, Oklahoma’s Pensacola Dam is the world’s largest multiple arch dam. In case of leaks, there are emergency repair kits every 1000 feet containing a sponge and a roll of duct tape.
* Bob Dunn of Beggs, Oklahoma, invented the world’s first electric guitar in 1935, about the same time that his mother coined the phrase “turn that crap down!”.
* At 287 feet above sea level, Little River, Oklahoma is the lowest point in the state and is reputed to be one of the many low places where Oklahoma native Garth Brooks has friends.
* Oklahoma City’s WKY was the first radio station to broadcast west of the Mississippi. It’s first transmission was “HELP! TORNADO!”.
* The National Lighter Museum in Guthrie, Oklahoma, contains over 20,000 lighters, the largest collection outside of a Rolling Stones concert.
* Oklahoma was the setting for the movie Twister, which proved to be very difficult to shoot, since other tornadoes kept sneaking onto the set and holding up “Hi Mom!” signs.
* Antlers, Oklahoma now bills itself as “The Deer Capital of the World” after receiving too many complaints about its previous nickname of “The World’s Horniest City”.
* Oklahoma is one of only two states whose capital cities include the name of the state. The other is New York.
* Why yes, I *did* fail geography in high school. How did you know?
* The first YIELD sign was installed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and was generally considered an improvement over the earlier version which simply said “Prepare For Impact”.
* Oklahoma has more man-made lakes than any other state, most of which are a result of a lack of duct tape at the Pensacola Dam.
* Humorist Will Rogers was born in Oologah, Oklahoma, and is best known for his saying, “I never met a man I didn’t like”. Please note that he died before Michael Moore was born.
* Durant, Oklahoma is home to “the world’s largest peanut” – a 3-footer. After being informed that Georgia had a 6-foot peanut, Oklahoma renamed theirs “the world’s largest peanut – after taxes”.
* Oklahoma was featured in the book, “The Grapes of Wrath”, as well as the sequel, “The Raisins of Petulance”.
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That wraps up the Oklahoma edition of Fun Facts About the 50 States. Next week we’ll be helping the border patrol beat up on hippies sneaking north from California as we visit Oregon.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m gonna go fling some poo. Anyone wanna watch?

DIPLOMACY – SAUDI ARABIA

Since like many in the conservative blogosphere I’m considering running for President of these United States in 2016, I thought it might be advantageous to start making my positions on various important topics clear. So let’s start with Diplomacy! And where would our diplomatic efforts be without that ever-present sandy migraine known as Saudi Arabia?

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To the Powers that Be in Saudi Arabia:

Dear Saudis, let's face it - this relationship is just not working out. Not for us, and not for anyone in your country who isn't one of the countless members of the royal family, or directly connected to them business-wise, and certainly not for any of your women, at all. And thanks to our burgeoning energy independence (yay fracking!), we find ourselves day by day less motivated to continue the charade that has to date kept the pipelines open.

So here's what we're going to do

We're going to bomb your country.

But we're going to do it in a ridiculously polite, uniquely American sort of way...

Starting at Jeddah, and working our way across towards Bahrain, and also starting at the three-way Saudi/Yemeni/Omani border intersection and heading Northwest towards Beirut, we're going to inscribe a gigantic CROSS across your entire territory, with Riyadh being right in the vertex.

This is not a religious statement, it just makes sense topographically.

Now being the wonderful and decent people that we are, we will happily provide a helpful clue to those Saudis who can read (which given the typical gender spread, coupled with a significant portion of the population being nomadic tribesmen, probably just means "those in charge")... Right after our bombs start to fall, you'll see wild celebrations break out randomly and spontaneously across your entire country, because at first all the bombs will seem to be duds.

None of them will explode on impact - guaranteed.

Don't be fooled.

We're going to space them out, roughly one every ten miles along these paths. Every other bomb will be the type that will come to rest at least 45 feet beneath the sand (and lesser but still subterranean depths when falling upon rock) while remaining fully operational. The other 50% will set down on the surface, in full glorious view, twenty miles from its nearest visible twin.

Resist the temptation to mess with them. Or touch them. Or even go near them. They will self-arm once in place.

They each will have a ten-mile blast radius.

In case you have difficulty with basic geometry, this means their United-States-of-America-engineered and Texas-made awesome zones of utter nuclear annihilation overlap. And they're touchy.

So are we.

At a time and specific place of our choosing, our Marines are going to start enjoying ham sandwiches in Mecca. Have a problem with this? Then enjoy the crater of glazed glass smoldering way out in the Empty Quarter.

See that refurbished building over there in Riyadh? Yeah, the pretty one... That's an Evangelical church. You'd best see that no harm comes to the Americans staffing it, else Jeddah's going to have one Shaitan of a fallout problem.

When you pis-, when you anger us sufficiently, or disagree with us on something important, or just smell really horrible when one of us is nearby, we’ll set off another bomb.

We’ll start way out in Nowheresville (ask a translator), and inch towards your cities ten glazed-and-glowing miles at a time. That gives you plenty of motivation, and plenty of time, to change your ways before you lose anything of significance.

Why would we do such a thing?

Because we’re the good guys.

You trained the terrorists who knocked down our towers. You export lethal and virulent theology and strategies which imperil the whole world. You and your trainees have bombed more locations than we can keep track of without our eyes glazing over.

You've known all along we could take your oil fields - which we developed for you - any time we wished. Yet so far we never have, and instead we've been "the nice guys" and have let you rape us economically for decades. Why? Because the vast majority of us didn't understand that your entire culture equates "being nice" with "being weak".

We scoff upon hearing you say things like "In the United States there's really no difference between the Democrats and the Republicans", because we know better. But from your point of view you're correct - because we didn't understand the scale... we didn't know what you were comparing us to. You're right, by and large. In America politicians from neither party will do things like barbecue their potential opponents' children, just to make a point. You'll never see a gang of SEIU agitators burn an entire Texas town down because it traditionally votes conservative. You don't see us doing absolutely everything within our power to hang onto our astounding might and influence, and you see our decency as a crippling disability you're ready to exploit.

But you're forgetting a few things.

· Flying jets into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a Pennsylvanian field isn't power.

· Sucking black crude out of the ground isn't power.

· Throwing acid into the faces of schoolgirls because they want to learn to read isn't power.

· Locking schoolgirls into a burning building because they're not allowed to flee the flames unless completely properly dressed isn't power.

· Dancing around in the sand wearing genie-robes and firing Russian rifles into the air while chanting mindlessly isn't power.

· And certainly throwing history's biggest babyish temper tantrums over CARTOONS isn't power.

Allow me to cite a few random counter-examples:

· Our Constitution is power.

· Our Industries are power.

· Our Interstate Highway System is power.

· Our hospital system - certainly before Obamacare (which it will outlast) - is power.

· Our school systems, which churn out more female doctorates then male these days (yay!), are power.

· Our technological know-how, which enables among countless other things our ability to rain hellfire down upon our enemy’s leaders, day or night, while they’re in motion, while we’re sitting in comfy chairs in air conditioned rooms half a planet away, is some very impressive power. Many of us enjoy the videos!

We're now officially bored with your violence, your bigotry, your hilariously antithetical arrogance, and your stubborn refusal to join the 20th Century, much less the 21st.

So we've decided to occupy your country. Not with our troops, at least no moreso than we already are, but with sophisticated, automated, robotic death machines capable of French-kissing* the Earth with the power of the Sun. You're actually not important enough for us to really occupy your country the traditional way.

You don’t impress us. And we’re tired of your whining.

Your vast desert wasteland country doesn't impress us - we've put battlebots on Mars!

Here's what we really think of you, as "a people", and to be clear - we mean this culturally not genetically. What's wrong with you isn't your ethnicity - it is everything you teach yourselves from cradle to grave. Despite your few modern cities, you are culturally barbarians. If you hadn’t been born over an ocean of oil (that you were unable to access without foreign assistance), you’d all be homeless nomads traversing drifting sands - slavers and slaves, afraid of afrit. Many of you still are.

Your median age is 25 years, four months. The vast majority of you weren't even born the last time WE set foot on the Moon.

You want to impress us?

To paraphrase Sam Kinison; There's the Moon - go bring back our flag!

This will be my administration's position.

Welcome to the New Diplomacy!

The Second Amendment

I’ve been saying for quite a while that Barack Obama is not a socialist. This is because our Dear Ruler is not advocating (at least not yet) the government ownership and control of the means of production. No, what Barack Obama is doing with our economy makes him more of an economic fascist: Where the control of businesses is still in private hands, but the government is pretty much running the show with excessive rules and regulations.
But that’s our economy. What about other aspects of fascism? Take for example, your right to bear arms. Historically, fascist regimes aren’t too fond of an individual citizen’s right to bear arms. They believe in a strong police state where if the military and the police aren’t the only ones with guns, and if private citizen does happen to own a firearm the government must absolutely know about it. Sounding a bit familiar? Do you see where we are heading here? Just remember what I’ve been saying on the air: The Supreme Court ruled that police – the government – has no duty to protect you. Your personal protection is ultimately up to you. Think about that.
Think about how comfortable you would be, knowing that only the government and those working for it would be able to carry a firearm … a firearm that is not there for your protection, but for theirs. This is exactly where the 2^nd Amendment comes into play. Owning a firearm is about as individualist an act as you can imagine – the act of protecting your life, liberty or property – and liberals can’t stand that. Our Founding Fathers recognized this sacred right.
I have two excellent articles I want you to read on the subject of gun control – or victim disarmament. This is a crucial issue, and reading these two articles will help you to calm your emotions over this leftist anti-Second Amendment agenda, and prepare you to deal more effectively with those who view you as nothing but a “gun-nut.”
The first article is Raging Against Self-Defense, A Psychiatrist Examines the Anti-Gun Mentality” by Sarah Thompson, M.D. This article is the best I’ve ever read when it comes to explaining the mindset of those who are determined to either take away or severely limit your right and ability to defend yourself from an armed predator.
The second article is actually a letter; an Open letter to the American Psychiatric
Association from Gene Flick, MD, another psychiatrist. This letter protests the efforts of the American Psychiatric Association to get involved in the victim disarmament movement.
Please --- read the two articles. This is a crucial issue. There have been several stories of guns being used in self-defense this week. There are people out there who are determined to see that these people do not have the means to defend themselves in the future. You need to understand their mindset. These articles will help.

President Obama’s Taxpayer-Backed Green Energy Failures

It is no secret that President Obama’s and green-energy supporters’ (from both parties) foray into venture capitalism has not gone well. But the extent of its failure has been largely ignored by the press. Sure, single instances garner attention as they happen, but they ignore past failures in order to make it seem like a rare case.
The truth is that the problem is widespread. The government’s picking winners and losers in the energy market has cost taxpayers billions of dollars, and the rate of failure, cronyism, and corruption at the companies receiving the subsidies is substantial. The fact that some companies are not under financial duress does not make the policy a success. It simply means that our taxpayer dollars subsidized companies that would’ve found the financial support in the private market.
So far, 34 companies that were offered federal support from taxpayers are faltering — either having gone bankrupt or laying off workers or heading for bankruptcy. This list includes only those companies that received federal money from the Obama Administration’s Department of Energy and other agencies. The amount of money indicated does not reflect how much was actually received or spent but how much was offered. The amount also does not include other state, local, and federal tax credits and subsidies, which push the amount of money these companies have received from taxpayers even higher.
The complete list of faltering or bankrupt green-energy companies:

1. Evergreen Solar ($25 million)*
2. SpectraWatt ($500,000)*
3. Solyndra ($535 million)*
4. Beacon Power ($43 million)*
5. Nevada Geothermal ($98.5 million)
6. SunPower ($1.2 billion)
7. First Solar ($1.46 billion)
8. Babcock and Brown ($178 million)
9. EnerDel’s subsidiary Ener1 ($118.5 million)*
10. Amonix ($5.9 million)
11. Fisker Automotive ($529 million)
12. Abound Solar ($400 million)*
13. A123 Systems ($279 million)*
14. Willard and Kelsey Solar Group ($700,981)*
15. Johnson Controls ($299 million)
16. Brightsource ($1.6 billion)
17. ECOtality ($126.2 million)
18. Raser Technologies ($33 million)*
19. Energy Conversion Devices ($13.3 million)*
20. Mountain Plaza, Inc. ($2 million)*
21. Olsen’s Crop Service and Olsen’s Mills Acquisition Company ($10 million)*
22. Range Fuels ($80 million)*
23. Thompson River Power ($6.5 million)*
24. Stirling Energy Systems ($7 million)*
25. Azure Dynamics ($5.4 million)*
26. GreenVolts ($500,000)
27. Vestas ($50 million)
28. LG Chem’s subsidiary Compact Power ($151 million)
29. Nordic Windpower ($16 million)*
30. Navistar ($39 million)
31. Satcon ($3 million)*
32. Konarka Technologies Inc. ($20 million)*
33. Mascoma Corp. ($100 million)

*Denotes companies that have filed for bankruptcy.
The problem begins with the issue of government picking winners and losers in the first place. Venture capitalist firms exist for this very reason, and they choose what to invest in by looking at companies’ business models and deciding if they are worthy. When the government plays venture capitalist, it tends to reward companies that are connected to the policymakers themselves or because it sounds nice to “invest” in green energy.
The 2009 stimulus set aside $80 billion to subsidize politically preferred energy projects. Since that time, 1,900 investigations have been opened to look into stimulus waste, fraud, and abuse (although not all are linked to the green-energy funds), and nearly 600 convictions have been made. Of that $80 billion in clean energy loans, grants, and tax credits, at least 10 percent has gone to companies that have since either gone bankrupt or are circling the drain.
CORRECTION:
Figures for four companies have been updated: Beacon Power received $43 million from the U.S. government, not $69 million as originally reported. Azure Dynamics received $5.4 million from the federal government, not $120 million as originally reported. Compact Power Inc. received $151 million as part of the stimulus, not $150 million as originally reported. Willard and Kelsey Solar Group received $700,981 in government funding, not $6 million as originally reported.
The following companies have been removed from the original list: AES’s subsidiary Eastern Energy, LSP Energy, Schneider Electric, and Uni-Solar did not receive government-backed loans, based on additional research. The National Renewable Energy Lab did received $200 million in stimulus funding, but it is a government laboratory.