Remember what the MSM and the libs are always telling us:
"One man's terrorist is another man's Freedom Fighter."
Cheers!
Posted on 09/26/2009 4:36:16 AM PDT by jay1949
Six teenagers are under observation in a Benjaminville, Virginia, hospital following the nation's first drive-by bulbing on Friday night. The incident raised concerns of mercury poisoning from the exploded CFL light bulbs used by the perpetrators. The local chapter of the Natural Resources Committee issued a statement condemning "this obvious right-wing Republican ecoterrorist hate crime."
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LOL.
Future Southpark episode.
I work for a power company and we encourage our customers to switch to CFLs, but the fear of mercury caused some backlash from the customers. So we announced that you can bring us your old CFLs and we’ll dispose of them properly.
So, one person at each location was designated the “CFL Collector”. The one at my facility is also the office liberal because he really believes in CFLs as “world-saving technology”.
sounds fair, right?
But when he was designated at the CFL Collector and discovered that he would have to keep a box in his office for the CFLs and could dispose of the box only when it was full, he went berserk.
He was in a panic (with actual tears in his eyes!) as he begged his manager not to make him keep a “toxic waste dump” in his office because “if just one of those bulbs breaks, I’ll be poisoned.”
And the “toxic waste dump” box? It was an 18” cardboard cube, lined with double trashbags.
This guy has 6 flourescent tubes in the ceiling of his office, which contain more mercury than he’d have if he filled his box with CFLs, but he was scared of the CFLS because...the media told him to be.
LOL. Sounds like the office version of NIMBYism.
That's because maintenance of the office flourescents is someone else's job. His assessment of danger goes down if someone in authority has arranged it to be someone else's responsibility.
ROFLOL. Typical arrested development lib.
Let’s see . . . rig up a cellphone to a blasting cap; put it in a box with a dozen CFLs . . . send a video to the media warning of the chaos to come . . . .
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...rig-up a cell phone with a blasting cap... I think we both have seen too many “Our Gang” episodes. I had the same idea,
“This guy has 6’flourescent tubes in the ceiling above his desk”
There’s a common misperception about the various compounds of mercury leading to a very cavalier attitude toward the stuff.
The type of mercury contained in long tubes is not the same as contained in CFBs. The compound in those compact flourescent bulbs vaporizes instantly when broken which and can enter nasal passages causing liver and kidney damage.
It is why the EPA considers them dangerous. Its use is highly restricted and only permitted in CFB (CFLs) because of the congressional mandate.
.Its an example of our congress at work. Sooner or later there are going to be people getting seriously ill or worse from these things.
Its not media hype, these things are dangerous they should never have been made. Let alone mandated. The question is will that ever get reported by the media.
http://www.theusmat.com/
Remember what the MSM and the libs are always telling us:
"One man's terrorist is another man's Freedom Fighter."
Cheers!
Dude, that's "fluorescent" -- the letter "u" comes first.
Cheers!
I didn’t know that. What are the mercury compounds in regular flourescents and CFLs? I’d like to do some research on this. It could really change my perspective.
I broke one several years ago when it fell into my kids toybox.
Newsflash-I cleaned up the glass and threw it away. I and my children are still alive.
I also bite down on fish sinkers to cleamp them to the line, shoot guns and melt lead to use as weights on my pinewood derby cars. I’m still alive.
Yeah, but your gonna die someday! People used to live forever until George W Bush invented lead and mercury and put it in puppy food.
You are absolutely and categorically wrong.
There is no “compound” any different in long tube versus CFBs.
They both contain the element Mercury, in its metallic form adhered to the phosphors coated on the interior of the bulb.
Big difference is the CFBs have much lower levels of mercury .
You are citing a biased source which does not know the physics or technology behind florescent or CFBs.
My source: I personally design, build service and maintain mercury remediation equipment (mercury retorts) for the industry and have done so going on 12 years.
Regards,
Lurking’
Like Rush used to say, everyone who ate carrots 120 years ago is now dead. Carrots are the most dangerous food in the world. Flee from carrots.
And most of their children are dead too. Carrots kill kids!
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