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I don’t need air conditioning, and neither do you
WAPO ^ | Aug. 18, 2016 | Karen Heller

Posted on 08/19/2016 11:15:32 AM PDT by PROCON


It’s time to come out of the closet. Or, more precisely, the sweat lodge.

My family lives without air con­ditioning, except for one antique, ­semi-comatose window unit that “cools” the bedroom to approximately the same temperature as Dallas at dusk.

Our house in Philadelphia was built in the 1920s, when people were tough and resourceful. For most of the year, the house is cool and pleasant, as long as there isn’t a mash-up of continuously scorching days and epic humidity, when the air is putrid, stagnant and, if it were a color, would definitely be mustard.

Which would be this summer. Which, so far, is the fourth-hottest summer on record in the Washington area. Emphasis on so far. NASA reports that July was the Earth’s hottest in recorded history. Cheer up, people say to those of us without air conditioning, September’s coming. Except people forget that most of September is still summer.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: airconditioning; climatechange; electricity; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; smugliberal
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To: PROCON

asceticism + self-denial + self-sacrifice + sanctimonious holier than though attitude = libtard environmentalism = negation of life and human values


141 posted on 08/19/2016 1:02:04 PM PDT by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: PROCON
She probably doesn't shave her underarms either!! Hey dumbass.....do you like your AIRPLANE to be air-conditioned when it's sitting on a hot runway for 30 minutes......of course you do you hypocrite!

No one had air conditioning when we were growing up....just like no one had TV! Geesh...she is an IDIOT!

142 posted on 08/19/2016 1:05:22 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: aquila48

OMG!! Now I KNOW she doesn’t shave!! EYE BLEACH!! WHY are Liberals all UGLY?


143 posted on 08/19/2016 1:06:40 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Reverend Wright

When I was young, the older residential streets of major cities were often lined with elm trees, which provided a cool green umbrella.

The elm trees were pretty much wiped out by Dutch elm disease in the early 1970’s.


144 posted on 08/19/2016 1:10:52 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

Tell him he does not need a Furnace in the winter

What fools live in this country

Bet the air conditioner uses less energy than the furnace


145 posted on 08/19/2016 1:21:51 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Jolla

We have a boat in Ventura. No air. I can muddle through on it when it gets about 83 inside. If it gets worse I go take a nice, long, cool walk up and down every aisle of Lowes. Lol. Our house is another story. It was 110 a couple of weeks ago. Our air runs at 78 all summer long. They can kiss my bohunkas.


146 posted on 08/19/2016 1:23:33 PM PDT by sheana
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To: Mrs. Don-o

I have COPD as well, and need A/C everywhere. The corridor in the hospital leading to the cafeteria is not air conditioned well for some reason but oh well. The food’s good and cheap as well, I always eat lunch there before PT...


147 posted on 08/19/2016 1:24:41 PM PDT by W. (0bama fatigue syndrome has set in long ago!)
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To: Zionist Conspirator

“How many elderly and ill would die without air conditioning?”

Tens of thousands. That’s what happened in France in 2003: France heat wave death toll set at 14,802: http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/weather/news/2003-09-25-france-heat_x.htm


148 posted on 08/19/2016 1:25:07 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: PROCON

https://weather.com/weather/monthly/l/USPA1276 shows Philadelphia’s average temp for July, the hottest month, is 87.

August is the hottest month where I am in TX and the average temp is 99. Now, let’s talk about a/c.


149 posted on 08/19/2016 1:31:00 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Anti-Bubba182

Don’t you just love that “Dallas at dusk” hooey? Dallas, TX doesn’t cool off below 90s at dusk.


150 posted on 08/19/2016 1:34:24 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: Larry Lucido; Gamecock
Just make sure your Commando 8 is securely fastened!
151 posted on 08/19/2016 1:45:14 PM PDT by PROCON ("Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!")
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To: Anti-Bubba182

I don’t think it is BS.
I don’t have AC, have never had AC, except in an apartment I lived in for about a year.
I installed one (large window unit) in the first home I bought, the electric bill went up over 400 extra dollars a month (I remember the dollar amount 40 years later because my wife never let me forget it).
Tore out the AC unit and just installed ceiling fans.
My wife and I started out kind of poor and needed every dollar we had for more important things.
The kids always bitched about no AC, told them if they paid for it I would install it, guess it just wasn’t THAT important to them either.


152 posted on 08/19/2016 1:46:11 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: elcid1970

Why are liberal wimmen always skaggie looking dogs??

Bow wow wow


153 posted on 08/19/2016 1:47:22 PM PDT by Gasshog (Clinton denies... Except to see a lot of this)
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To: PROCON
I don’t need air conditioning,

No wonder liberals always have a certain malodorous (stink) about them. You can "sweat it out" but don't push it on me.

154 posted on 08/19/2016 2:03:18 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (KAINE-Voting For Hillary Will Put American Women On Par With Women In Iraq, Afghanistan = Sharia Law)
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To: PROCON

>Living without affords its own strange luxuries. True, life is harder, but also more sensual. Stern loves the freedom that heat bestows to reclaim summer as a slower season. “If you’re living without air conditioning, you can’t do stuff,” she says. “It’s enforced relaxation and stupefaction.”

See? It’s also the perfect excuse.<

More sensual?? I would think being, ahem, sensual, would be miserable without A/C in many parts of the country. So is Karen asexual? The perfect excuse for not being able to do stuff indeed.


155 posted on 08/19/2016 2:25:54 PM PDT by Darnright (When a system acts illegally, its dictates are not the law of the land, they are the law of force)
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To: angcat

My uncle did not like a/c. He said to us that the ocean air will come ashore around 3pm. It was more like 6pm.
Meanwhile it was miserable. Any time I visited I would stand in front of the fan the whole time.


156 posted on 08/19/2016 2:27:43 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: PROCON

Another Luddite speaks. But not content with living in the nineteenth century herself, she wants to force us to join her.


157 posted on 08/19/2016 2:39:23 PM PDT by Rummyfan (Let us now try liberty.)
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To: Rummyfan
not content with living in the nineteenth century

Good times!

The period 1871-1914 is my favorite, especially 1880-1900.

158 posted on 08/19/2016 2:46:41 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: donna
Thanks, Donna! Got a good new word, communis rixatrix, and a good laugh.

But this woman is worse than a rixatrix, an annoyance. She is more like a Bellatrix: a Death-Eater.

France and Europe during the 2003 heat wave: 70,000 dead in Europe, 17,000 to 19,000 in France alone died from the heat wave, mostly elderly and people with respiratory difficulties stuck in non-A/C houses while their younger relatives took off for the mountain or the shore.

Hey, Karen Heller! Don´t need AC? Move to Europe, where you can reduce your carbon footprint but good, die promptly and efficiently, and oh-so cozy warm.

159 posted on 08/19/2016 3:03:54 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Queer as folk.)
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To: Mrs. Don-o
I remember that. And Chicago had one:

The 1995 Chicago heat wave was a heat wave which led to 739 heat-related deaths in Chicago over a period of five days. Most of the victims of the heat wave were elderly poor residents of the city, who could not afford air conditioning and did not open windows or sleep outside for fear of crime.

The heat wave also heavily impacted the wider Midwestern region, with additional deaths in both St. Louis, Missouri and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Source: Wikipedia

160 posted on 08/19/2016 3:24:19 PM PDT by donna (No one should be allowed to become a citizen or even a resident if they support Sharia Law.)
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