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10-26-2009, 02:07 PM
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gotta give you points for that one!  |
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10-27-2009, 11:08 AM
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Atlas shrugged ...
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10-28-2009, 04:44 AM
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Three to five round burst
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"Hard work is good for the soul....."
(set 10 days ago)
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Banning Big-Screen T.V.?
mmmmmm.....Well this won't go over very well in Richmond....West Oakland....East Palo Alto, East Sacramento...Hunters Point / Bay View....
.....unless of course there is the "solar option"......Solar Powered Big Screen T.V.'s.....No?
Who's gonna be the unfortunate fool in Richmond....telling all those folks that they can't have Big Screen T.V.'s....
Dude...what next? A ban on gas guzzling SUV's and muscle cars? .... A ban on "spinners"...
Hey...."throw some "D's" on it!"......
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10-28-2009, 10:01 AM
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They already have a gas guzzlers tax on V8 cars.... they force all other appliances to be energy efficient. And this will only apply to new TVs that are made, not existing TVs, just like with any other regulation. So it's not that people WON'T be able to buy big screen TVs. They just will have a new selection available to them. The TV manufacturers will offer low energy models. It really isn't a big deal.
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10-28-2009, 05:35 PM
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Just another choice? Like they are giving us on lightbulbs? The 100 watt bulb will be illegal in the US in three years. There is no good replacement. Break one of the new mercury bulbs on your carpet and you'll need to hire 'hazmat' people to do a clean up.
Great to be "offerred" such great choices by busy-body politicans like those running California.
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10-28-2009, 06:28 PM
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That reminds me, I read a book back when I was a total Green Fascist freak back in the first half of the 80s.
The book was "Greenhouse: It WILL Happen in 1997" by Dakota James.
Look at the current NOAA surface chart for CONUS ... I realize weather is not climate. But according to the Hansen crowd, circa 1980s, by now, we should not be having weather like this.
I think I'll recast James' book: "Icehouse: It WILL Happen in 2012!"
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10-28-2009, 07:02 PM
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Originally Posted by sunshine7793
Just another choice? Like they are giving us on lightbulbs? The 100 watt bulb will be illegal in the US in three years. There is no good replacement. Break one of the new mercury bulbs on your carpet and you'll need to hire 'hazmat' people to do a clean up.
Great to be "offerred" such great choices by busy-body politicans like those running California.
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I hadn't heard that. 
As regulations seem to pile on geometrically and, as the thought police absorb an increasing share of the population, it becomes easy to envision a society where each morning "humans" receive all instructions and thoughts for their day via wireless transmitters from central control.
I wish I were joking. We're already living in a Brave New World. |
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10-28-2009, 07:22 PM
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It starts with the 100 watt bulb becoming illegal in 2012. Then each year a few more become illegal until by 2020 all of the lightbulbs we have been using will be illegal.
But I don't mind. It's going to save the planet after all. Problem is my attic is now so full of incadescent bulbs that I have been hoarding that I need more space.
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10-28-2009, 07:32 PM
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Never thought I'd see the day when socialism is openly defended or promoted in the US. People from all around the world line up to live in our country for what it is and what made it great. They are not lining up to live in socialist countries. Socialism appeals to public workers and loosers.
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Another uneducated statement. Not saying you're uneducated but that statement completely ignores the fact that people immigrate to Europe in HUGE numbers from all over the world. So much so that these socialist countries are having real problems with immigration, not just illegal immigration as it is here. In Europe, legal immigration has gotten out of control in some areas. Most European countries have declining birth rates but their populations are increasing. How can that be if everyone is only lining up to be here? |
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10-28-2009, 07:37 PM
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I heard it was proposed legislation but nothing concrete yet. Wouldn't surprise me if it eventually did get through though.
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