Posted on 06/29/2013 4:53:16 AM PDT by Big_Harry
I try to ignore the stupidity that seems to rush in waves from our, so-called, government, but the following email from my daughter has really set me off. Yesterday, she told me that my son-in-law, (along with every other soldier and Marine in Afghanistan), was working in 125 degree heat. Now this morning I get this report:
"Just got an email from_____. He said they just received communications saying in an effort to cut costs, they want them to turn their thermostats in their living areas up to 77 when they are there and 81 when they aren't. Are you kidding me?! It's 125 degrees there! It's a crappy place! The one luxury they have and enjoy is air-conditioning!
Sorry. It makes me so angry how the guys doing their jobs are being treated in an effort to "save money." Considering all the cuts that can be made elsewhere.
I love you, Daddy. We're just going to have to keep praying these guys home."
While you are praying, also pray against the spirit of anti-Christ that is ruling our nation.
Gotta save money so Obama and his family can take those multi-million-dollar vacations.
> While you are praying, also pray against the spirit of anti-Christ that is ruling our nation.
“spirit of anti-Christ”? Try more like the anti-Christ himself
FWIW, A conditioning in the desert doesn’t promote acclimatization. Summer colds are much more common when troops/Marines are garrisoned in air conditioned environments, instead of cooled by evaporative cooling.
Many package units are designed to cool to a differential temperature of about 40 degrees. 120F outside, 80 degrees in AC. 130F outside, 90 deg AC.
Swamp cooling tends to reduce the temp by about 15deg-25 deg, but provides 3X as much ventilation. The perceptible temperature is more efficiently influenced by the cooler air flowing over the body, instead of the entire environment being reduced in temp.
IOW, It’s healthier for the grunt to live with swamp cooling in the desert.
NO money for Veterans in America
Money for guns in FAST&Furious and for terrorists' lawyers WORLDWIDE
NO money for American troops at the War Front
Money for MANPADS for al Qaeda under Obama and the US Congress.
NO money for investigations of Obama's IRS attacking Americans
Money for Billion dollar Obama Safaris taking hundreds of people all for His Majesty's pleasure.
NO money for the whistleblowers and victims of Obama's Benghazi fiasco.
We routinely keep the AC in the 77 degree range as we have to work outside part of the day. Avoids the shock of temp change, and, yes, it does save money. No reason to keep a home at a temperature where you can’t tell the difference between the living room and the refrigerator ( bit of an exaggeration, but...)
I’m not surprised.
Where I work, anyplace there is central air, the garrison sets the temperature at 78 degrees.
And they will not relent.
Thousands of American military sweat while the community organizer flies around the world on vacation in a 747.
I have no problem with this. I to work in 100+ heat all
day and I keep my thermostat at 78 night and 80 during
the day. It’s called acclimation. You get used to it and
comfortable in higher temperatures. All they have to do
is quit being whiny wusses and set an example for the rest
of the federal employees. Send them a case of deodorant.
It’s the whine effect Obama is after. Don’t give it to
him.
The time has come (long long ago) to hold the King accountable...
We routinely keep the AC in the 77 degree range as we have to work outside part of the day. Avoids the shock of temp change, and, yes, it does save money. No reason to keep a home at a temperature where you can’t tell the difference between the living room and the refrigerator ( bit of an exaggeration, but...)
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This is true. We keep ours at 80 degrees and turn it down a bit at night. It’s healthier and far more economical for us all.
With Obama’s plan for “global warming” carbon control...none of us will be able to afford air conditioning anyway.
what the thermostats set in the White House while barry and mooch and her mama gone?
Probably keepin it cool so the dog wont be uncomfortable
It’s Mr. Mercat’s theory that our A/C can only cool our house to 20 degrees cooler than the outside temp. So for example, if the outside temp is 100, our house can only get down to 80. I find this to be true when it is 100 plus for several days running. And we have a pretty good unit.
Part of Zer0’s climate change initiative. Those darned air conditioners create a ton of green house gases.
F U B O !
77 is 77. I don’t understand the uproar.
I pray for our troops’ safe return.
“you have no problem with this”
Oh really
Do you have a job where people are trying to kill you 24/7 Do you have to wear helmet and flak gear every time you go outside and maybe inside too every time an alert goes off?
And do you cover your mouth and nose constantly because that blast furnace air carries 1000 years of powdered shit and other nasty stuff that turns your stomach and guts inside out?
the military has been sucking it up and “setting the example” ever since Jimmuh Carter started wearing sweaters in the WH .. like anyone else has noticed
how about if the White House starts setting an example
Oh no, I bettin’ Mama Robinson call Jesse Jackson if they set her thermostat at 77
Don't worry about it too much. Most systems over here can only knock off about 30 to 40 degrees. So if it is 125 outside it will be 85 to 95 inside. In other words, the AC will be running at maximum anyway.
mean temps in the WH are 68-72 per order of Moo.
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