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The Final Days of the Incandescent Light Bulb
RushLimbaugh.com ^ | 12/09/11 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 12/09/2011 6:07:38 PM PST by Evil Slayer

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RUSH: In three weeks and one day the 100-watt incandescent light bulb will be illegal. In three weeks and one day it will be illegal to sell a 100-watt incandescent light bulb. And who did this? The federal government. The federal government, under the auspices of a hoax, mankind global warming. You know, I've been staying in a lot of hotels lately, been doing a little traveling, and hotels are like a lot of other businesses, they just run scared of any regulatory agency. Nobody stands up to regulatory agency, and you can understand it. So you walk in and you turn on the lamp and you know that it's a compact fluorescent. You know because it's inferior light. You know because it's small and tiny. You know because it isn't going to be sufficient. The Democrat led federal government is taking us backwards. The enemy of the Democrat Party is progress. In three weeks and one day, illegal to buy an incandescent light bulb. And you know what that means, when the 100-watt incandescent light bulbs are outlawed only criminals will have them. That means me. I will be a criminal. (interruption) Well, you can have them but you can't sell them, but they're still gonna be gunning for you. At some point it's gonna be illegal to have them. But if you can't sell them -- (interruption) well, if I use one in proximity to a turtle? Yeah, then it could be jail time.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Editorial; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 100watt; 100wattban; 100wattbulb; cfl; eib; incandescent; jobslost; rush; rushlimbaugh; rushlive
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To: doc1019

Fairies come and take the old CFLs away. At least that’s what I figure must be happening because I certainly wouldn’t want to break the law.


21 posted on 12/09/2011 6:38:13 PM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: cripplecreek

My second cousin twice removed has a third cousin with a friend who says his wife’s best friend says she just tosses the dammed things in the trash (rumor, of course).


22 posted on 12/09/2011 6:41:58 PM PST by doc1019 (Romney will never get my vote)
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To: doc1019

“You have one go out yet? If so, how do you get rid of it? Against the law to just through it away. Inquiring minds want to know. ;-)”

Box it up and send it to the White House addressed to the alleged brightest bulb in the package.


23 posted on 12/09/2011 6:42:29 PM PST by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: Evil Slayer
a design not bettered in a hundred + years. so good it had to be stopped by legislation.

Not unlike the internal combustion engine.

What is it these morons against anything good and Holy?

24 posted on 12/09/2011 6:43:08 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (omg - obama must go!)
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To: doc1019
You have one go out yet? If so, how do you get rid of it? Against the law to just through it away. Inquiring minds want to know. ;-)

Don't you mean "knough?"

25 posted on 12/09/2011 6:43:57 PM PST by Misterioso
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To: Stormdog

ROFLMAO!!


26 posted on 12/09/2011 6:44:27 PM PST by doc1019 (Romney will never get my vote)
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To: Baynative

I am totally against a mandate on bulbs but I like the CFLs.

I have had one burning on the front porch 24/7 for five years.

Our master bath has two fixtures that hold eight bulbs each. Regular bulbs heated the room fifteen degrees over ambient. The CFL’s produce as much light and no heat.

I sure as hell don’t have one in any reading lamps though.


27 posted on 12/09/2011 6:45:14 PM PST by Eaker (Nothing even remotely praising Romney should be posted because one should stick to the truth.)
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To: Baynative

28 posted on 12/09/2011 6:46:49 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (omg - obama must go!)
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To: doc1019

I’m in the next district over from Fred Upton and I’d like to send the old CFLs to his office for him to deal with but I’d go to prison for sending poison through the mail.


29 posted on 12/09/2011 6:47:12 PM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: StormEye
I've noticed that problem too. Some 60 watt bulbs are only lasting a month.

Try 130 volt bulbs.

30 posted on 12/09/2011 6:47:56 PM PST by Prokopton (.)
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To: Evil Slayer

If Edison were alive, he’d shrug.


31 posted on 12/09/2011 6:48:36 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (omg - obama must go!)
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To: Evil Slayer

I have yet to buy a CFL yet, so I know nothing about them. Considering my stock of incandescents, I may never know.


32 posted on 12/09/2011 6:52:03 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies. Plan it.)
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To: doc1019

“You have one go out yet? If so, how do you get rid of it? Against the law to just through it away. Inquiring minds want to know. ;-)”

I throw them away. There, now I’ve outed myself.


33 posted on 12/09/2011 6:53:57 PM PST by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: cripplecreek

Do you buy the 130V bulbs? I had a problem with a bathroom fixture burning through bulbs, and it hasn’t happened since I bought the 130V incandescents.


34 posted on 12/09/2011 6:54:01 PM PST by JustaDumbBlonde (Don't wish doom on your enemies. Plan it.)
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To: Stormdog

Maybe a better solution would be to the old CFBs in a standard envelope and send them back to GE.


35 posted on 12/09/2011 6:59:06 PM PST by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: Stormdog

Maybe a better solution would be to toss the old CFBs in a standard envelope and send them back to GE.


36 posted on 12/09/2011 6:59:31 PM PST by keats5 (Not all of us are hypnotized.)
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To: cripplecreek

You know, of course, if you drop one of these suckers and it breaks, you are supposed to contact your local fire department and inform them you have a hazmat incident.

I can imagine this excites the local FDs no end. Ten or fifteen times a week they get to don their hazmat suits to collect the remnants of dropped light bulbs.


37 posted on 12/09/2011 7:02:12 PM PST by doc1019 (Romney will never get my vote)
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To: Evil Slayer

How about producing a 101 watt incandescent bulb?


38 posted on 12/09/2011 7:05:34 PM PST by BulletBobCo
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To: Evil Slayer

Heil Holidays!


39 posted on 12/09/2011 7:06:51 PM PST by lephantom
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To: doc1019

Glenn Beck Breaks CFL Bulb For Earthday

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu43-C1qZ4w


40 posted on 12/09/2011 7:07:58 PM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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