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February 28, 2008
Compact Fluorescents Are Hazardous to Children
The overpriced, dim, flickering compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) that we will soon be forced to use in the name of the environment are a major environmental hazard due to the mercury they contain.
The Boston Globe admits that the bulbs pose a "risk of mercury poisoning to infants, young children, and pregnant women if they break." But homeowners are urged to use them anyway, even before they become mandatory, "because their energy-saving benefits far outweigh the risk posed by mercury released from a broken lamp."
Parents should be the judge of that, not the Kool-Aid–guzzling liberal nitwits at the Boston Globe, nor the corrupt bureaucrats who are imposing the deficient bulbs not in an insane attempt to improve the weather, but to posture, and to please the deep-pocketed corporations like GE that market CFLs. (GE has used its ownership of NBC to advance the global warming hoax at every opportunity, as part of a strategy of having its products made mandatory.)
In some states broken bulbs must be disposed of as hazardous waste, a time-consuming and expensive undertaking. In Massachusetts it will soon be illegal to throw away even intact CFLs.
It's recommended consumers not use CFLs in table lamps that could be knocked over by children (as if we will have a choice after 2012). If a bulb breaks over carpet, you are advised to cut out the part of the carpet that has been contaminated. It may look a little funny, but think of the polar bears you can pretend you are saving!
On tips from Dave D, V the K and mega.
Posted by Van Helsing at February 28, 2008 8:33 AM
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Profiles in courage against green fascism: California State Senator Jim Battin.
Posted by: V the K at February 28, 2008 8:45 AM
I'm pleased to see the comments about GE/NBC here. It's my belief that the usual and conventional-wisdom dichotomy between eco/green/moonbat/global warming fools vs. corporate interests is too simplistic, and increasingly inaccurate. Whether the topic is ethanol or lightbulbs or a million other things, savvy corporate interests have glommed onto the global warming hysteria to profit off the insanity. Moonbats who see themselves as diametrically and forever opposed to corporate proft-seeking should wake up and realize they have become the tools of some very, very powerful corporate interests and corpoate power, such as GE. Nowhere is that clearer than in this insane area of CFC light bulbs and cuttint holes in our carpets, but there are many other examples, and there will thousands more if people don't pull back from the insanity of the global warming hysteria.
Posted by: mega at February 28, 2008 9:40 AM
SEALAB 2021 classic:
Quinn (as a fish): "Hey man, did you know there's toxic waste like, right over there?"
Whale: "Uh... humans and their filthy ravenous machines... spewing out vile toxins..."
Quinn: "Might even be radioactive. I think we ought to get everybody out o-"
Whale: "Did you know that the average fish today contains more mercury than a rectal thermometer?"
Quinn: "Yeah, I think I read that someplace."
Whale: "Would you eat a rectal thermometer!? Answer me, damn you!"
Quinn: "Uh... no."
Whale: "Well, I would." (eats Quinn the fish)
Quinn: "HEY!"
Whale: "Ah, mercury. Sweetest of the transition metals."
Posted by: Anonymous at February 28, 2008 9:49 AM
"...in an insane attempt to improve the weather..."
Maybe "control" is a better word than "improve".
Posted by: Jimbo at February 28, 2008 10:00 AM
...And the great light bulb stockpiling begins for me. As an artist, I find the new CFLs to be extremely inconvenient sources of light. They cast an sickly orange tint on everything photographed, they flicker enough to cause a seizure the likes of which a Pokemon would be proud, and they don't last as long as the kooks want us to believe they do. Every chance I get I will pick up as many environmentally destructive, old-fashioned, brighter than the sun light bulb as I can.
Posted by: monsterforge at February 28, 2008 11:59 AM
I bet I can take the family heirloom quilts out of my cedar chest and load it up with a 15 year supply of enviro-destructive light bulbs!!! I see it all now... I die and there is a newspaper article about the woman with 8 million illegal light bulbs stashed in her attic!!!
"Maybe "control" is a better word than "improve"."
I think maybe you should replace "weather" with "sheeple", that's what they want to control. The numbers of people believing this global warming hoax just goes beyond strange!
Posted by: HoosierArmyMom at February 28, 2008 12:32 PM
"savvy corporate interests have glommed onto the global warming hysteria to profit off the insanity."
I'd go one step further mega and suggest some corporations are causing the furor and manufactured the "crisis" out of whole cloth. Most people have a positive emotional reaction to nature so the marketing is easy. If people really wanted to use less energy, they could simply turn off the lights.
Civilization developed before light bulbs so Big Brother could say "After 6 pm, lights out!" But that wouldn't line anyone's pockets.
Oh shoot, I don't want to give the earth goddess cultist any more ideas!
Posted by: mandy at February 28, 2008 2:14 PM
The idea of mercury being the main complaint is bullshit. The biggest complaint should be the government mandates for light bulbs.
Posted by: Mr. Parker at February 28, 2008 8:51 PM
I hope the Homosexual community does not think this thing is a 'toy'. Could cause toxic side effects like severe bleeding while being exposed to mercury.
Posted by: Oiao at February 28, 2008 9:29 PM
Oiao, aka Jimbo, you are an asshole.
Posted by: Mr. Parker at February 28, 2008 10:19 PM
Lions, Tigers and Bears, oh my!
Posted by: Oiao at February 28, 2008 11:47 PM
Hey Jimbo, now we are dual personalities... - LOL
No need to respond. They will just think I already know what you would have said. LOLOLOLOL
Pearl Harbor staff and above club at the marina still there? Right across from the Navy Gate next to the causeway gate. Used to have great free Alaskan King Crab legs on Thursday nights. Nice sunset over the Waianae......
Posted by: Oiao at February 28, 2008 11:56 PM
