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Does air conditioning make people vote Republican?
Salon.com ^
| August 21, 2008
| Edward McClelland
Posted on 08/21/2008 6:30:46 AM PDT by libstripper
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He's certainly right about AC making the rise of the modern South possible. The decline of the Rust Belt, however, was clearly caused by the union thugs and socialists he so loves.
To: libstripper
Just as I suspected. All liberals are luddites.............
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:34:46 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
To: libstripper
“...we haven’t elected a Yankee president in nearly 50 years. Honestly, I don’t want something like that in my house. Especially if I have to pay for it.”
Froma grammatical standpoint, I can’t determine whether it is air conditioners or Yankee Presidents which he does not want in his house. Can someone help me out here?
;^)
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:36:26 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(And now I shall return to my hovel and cling to my guns ... until it is time to go to Church)
To: libstripper
Reminds of a liberal family I know that glorify is self-deprivation. Kept their house barely above freezing in the winter, ate the crappy “natural” peanut butter which settles out with oil on top, and took 2000 mile family trips in their VW bus making sure to avoid the interstate highway system.
It was all done for the bragging rights of being purer than others. I can just see them now, sitting in a steaming hot house with sweat pouring down their faces, instructing their children that air conditioning is for Republicans.
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:37:10 AM PDT
by
SampleMan
(We are a free and industrious people, socialist nannies do not become us.)
To: libstripper
I suppose that conversely, then, we could argue that in-home heating produced northern liberals?
To: libstripper
It sounds like he longs to live in Europe.
I tell all my liberal friends that if they want to reduce their carbon footprint just turn off the AC and hang their clothes on the clothesline outside.
They never seem to want to do that.
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:40:13 AM PDT
by
NeilGus
To: libstripper
as well as the fact that we haven't elected a Yankee president in nearly 50 years. Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
George H. W. Bush
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:41:16 AM PDT
by
cowboyway
("The beauty of the Second Amendment is you won't need it until they try to take it away"--Jefferson)
To: libstripper
I think the desire to continue having AC makes *smart* people vote Republican.
susie
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:41:30 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(Obama--Jimmy Carter's Second Term)
To: WayneS
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:42:15 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(Obama--Jimmy Carter's Second Term)
To: NeilGus
It sounds like he longs to live in Europe. The last time I visited Greece back in the mid-1990s, it seemed the only place you could find AC was inside a newer car. How primitive... and hot.
Back to the article. The writer is an idiot. It gets plenty hot and humid up north too.
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:42:25 AM PDT
by
pnh102
(Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
To: SampleMan
I can just see them now, sitting in a steaming hot house with sweat pouring down their faces, instructing their children that air conditioning is for Republicans.Sounds like a good way to turn the kids into Republicans. "Well if we have to vote GOP to keep from getting heatstroke IN the house...", or "Those dang liberals [like Dad] are IDIOTS!"
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:43:29 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: libstripper
Sounds like AC should be credited for saving what remaining, competitive manufacturing base we have in this country.
To: pnh102
It gets plenty hot and humid up north too.He knows this. The point is that liberals are too stupid to fix things, and he aparently likes that. ;-)
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:44:58 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: NeilGus
I did use a clothes line for years (and cloth diapers—I really should win an award!) I kinda miss the way clothes dried on the line smell, but I admit, I really don’t want to spend that much time on laundry these days (plus my HOA would likely have a fit if I put up a clothes line!).
susie
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:45:20 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(Obama--Jimmy Carter's Second Term)
To: libstripper
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:45:23 AM PDT
by
mewzilla
(In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams)
To: Red Badger
Climate control in general is a HUGE productivity booster in modern economies.
Yes, libs are luddites. Some, however, want to keep the luxuries for themselves, and just don’t want everyone else to have them.
In some cases, it’s because of their “fixed pie” mentality,
but in others, it’s just a matter of
“I’m an elite, I should have stuff that others don’t, and if they can get it, I’ll do my best to put a stop to it.”
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:45:57 AM PDT
by
MrB
(You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
To: Juan Medén
I suppose that conversely, then, we could argue that in-home heating produced northern liberals?Yes, the outgassing of the upholstery stuffing at the elevated temperatures killed a lot of their brain cells.
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:46:26 AM PDT
by
Still Thinking
(Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?)
To: libstripper
Does air conditioning make people vote Republican? No, common sense does.
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:48:42 AM PDT
by
edzo4
To: pnh102
Well, here in Germany, air conditioning is almost non-existent. On post, the only way you can get air conditioning is if you buy it yourself, or if it is necessary (meaning your equipment may break if it gets too warm; it being 95 degrees indoors while you are trying to sleep is not an acceptable reason to get A/C). Our buildings trap heat quite well; and the hottest part of the building is the basement, where I do most of my work...
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posted on
08/21/2008 6:53:48 AM PDT
by
tlj18
To: libstripper
The most destructive legacy of air conditioning is that it’s use has inflicted us with year-round Congress. BAC, Congress used to escape the confines of Washington during the oppressively hot summers. Curse you Willis Carrier.
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