Posted on 08/30/2009 8:20:53 PM PDT by Shellybenoit
Wake up!
America's runaway population growth--which is 99% from immigrants and their offspring--is costing us our freedom in small steps.
Before you know it, you will be herded into population centers (cities) to live in human anthills (apartment houses) because such living conserves resources.
That will be after they tax single family homes (like they now tax cigarettes) out of existence, that they may use the land for growing food, nature museums, and the like.
At the rate of population growth, this will be the fate of Americans by mid-century, if not sooner.
Unless the government greatly reduces the number of LEGAL immigrants allowed in each year (and the government won't).
Not in my area yet. One of the former owners of my house put in the Kansas Power & Light Co. thermostat that regulates the air and it PI**ES me off. So many mornings I wake up hotter than hell because the thermostat is up way too high.
I think I will fill my storage unit with incandescent bulbs.
Yep same here. Just the 45’s and 60’s though. 75 and 100 my wife says are too bright, and yes my eyesight has suffered.
Psssttt. My cousin, he bring up a load of the light bulbs from Mexico. We sell them cheap, man. Give everyone plenty of watts, man. Tell no one please, we go to get the next shipment soon.
The Boston Tea Party comes to mind.
That is what is needed here...
A whole truckload of them needs to be destroyed on the highway... one by one...
forcing a haz-mat environmental team to clean up all the mercury. Then lets see what the environmentalists have to say about that.
Can it be ripped off the wall and mailed back to KP&L?
It is a crying shame that so many people are being duped by the global warming hoax. The fact that there is no warming doesn't stop them, the fact that they can not get their computer models to demonstrate what has already happened doesn't stop them. The fact that they have no empirical evidence that CO2 is even a cause for the warming that isn't occurring, They can not even explain why they think that the present temperature is the right and best temperature for the earth.
They are insane, and all those who go along with the hoax are self delusional fools. Unfortunately there are many fools in this world.
I think it costs some money to do it. I’m going to check it out again.
Sorry about that 100 years old, Fat fingers, late night typing.
I am guessing, but fluorescent when getting old usually will not come on immediately. Guess I'll find out in time.
We should protest by switching to candles and oil lamps. :) put the new bulb makers out of business.
I just had an electrician come over last week to install a new receiver in my Hunter ceiling fan, as the previous receiver had been a lemon and so the remote control had not worked. This particular electrician specializes in ceiling fans and chandeliers. He told me that I could not use all CFL bulbs in the ceiling fan lights because “some receivers are designed to work with incandescent lights and won’t work unless there is at least one incandescent bulb of the three.” He was right. I was able to use 2 CFL bulbs, but if the third bulb was a CFL, the remote would not function. Put an incandescent bulb in that last light and bingo! It worked perfectly. So what happens to fixtures such as this which actually require an incandescent bulb in order to function? The idiots who jump prematurely on bandwagons such as the “Green Bandwagon” before they consider all possible ramifications of their actions should NOT be responsible for passing legislation of any kind. As Ralph Nader would have said, these legislator morons and their Fearless Leader (ha!) are “unsafe at any speed.”
I bought some of those darn trendy bulbs and it takes them a few minutes to light up after you turn them on. If you need instant light, you are SOL. They cost a fortune, too. But the old ones got to where they were burning out really fast.
“Bulb smuggler” would look good on your resume.
We use a combination of 32 watt fluorescents and 12 volt 35 watt halogens in 3.5k degree Kelvin in our store. The halogens are rated 2,000 hours, at which time they start to put out a lower color temperature light. They get moved to basement & storage lighting for the rest of their life. Some of the fluorescents have run continuously 24/7 for over 5 years. Rated at 32 watts, they draw closer to 28 watts and put out more light than the garden variety 40s. Neither of these bulbs come cheap; the fluorescents are almost twice the typical 40 watt price and the halogens are about $10. The upside is our electric bill is about 1/3 that of the previous business (a jeweler) that used lower tech lighting.
Well we can thank Bush, Congress,and certainly last but by no means the least behind this. Walmart the new Liberal corporation. http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/108/open_lightbulbs.html?page=0%2C1
More Walmart is behind this evidence http://www.fool.com/investing/value/2006/09/06/walmarts-bright-idea.aspx Time for a lighting Boycott of Wally World. I told one Freeper months ago that they were the ones pushing this garbage and was called a union loving liberal.
Nonsense...thats just an excuse to close the place down.
People will still NEED bulbs. If the old incandescent type has had its day, why dont they just tool the factory up to make the new types? Or did they just not think of that?
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