 it s déjà vu all over again by now we ve all heard about the 535 million or only  528 million depending on who you listen to loan from the us taxpayers via stimulus money to solyndra rumored maker of solar panels and the subsequent bankruptcy of said company old news but i read an article that the enormous plant had all kinds of awesome amenities including robots whistling disney tunes which were my favorite feature personally i would have had them hum musak of 80 s hip hop artists like ll cool j but that would have been over the top luckily after that fiasco the us government which approved the loans to solyndra has learned it s lesson no more unicorns and rainbows ideas of energy production just tried and true staples like coal and oil ha  just kidding  of course washington ap the energy department on wednesday approved two loan guarantees worth more than 1 billion for solar energy projects in nevada and arizona they could have at least reused the bankrupt plant in california and we have plenty of empty factories in michigan it s not like we would be the ones using the solar panels so the face that we receive far fewer sunny days that arizona or nevada shouldn t matter in fact i ve read that lansing has more cloudy days than the infamous seattle as i write this it s raining but wind we have we were blown away by governor granholm after all a billion for solar panels here and a billion for bridges to nowhere there and pretty soon you re talking about a thoroughly hopelessly bankrupt country begging the chinese for yet a little more cash just to get us through this next decade then we ll get clean and sober and pay our debts promise pinky swear  