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Politics : Manmade Global Warming, A hoax? A Scam? or a Doomsday Cult? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: The Vet who wrote (2535)	5/25/2011 4:21:02 PM
From: Don Hurst	Respond to of 4326

>>" Now, apparently man causes all the bad weather and Bill McKibben seems to be saying that God is out of the weather business entirely. "<< God must be "out of the weather business". As soon as one of these weather disasters hit, the survivors flock to the churches left standing and pray to her. Clearly she could not have been responsible for any of it. And oh btw, man is changing the climate and it ain't good; better start praying for (to) him.

To: The Vet who wrote (2535)	5/25/2011 5:26:48 PM
From: joseffy	Respond to of 4326

Environmental Terrorism: Please Don’t Take My Lightbulb Away! ............................................................ May 25, 2011 shortlittlerebel.wordpress.com Now, I don’t know about you, but I am just enraged about the government making LIGHT BULBS illegal. Light bulbs! If that is not sticking their big, fat fingers into my pie, I don’t know what is. If that doesn’t smack of unconstitutional, I don’t what does. Where does the government get off legislating such an innocuous product? Should we fear the dastardly deeds of this Enemy of The State? Has it murdered anyone? Blown anyone’s fingers off? Seeped radiation or toxic fumes? No. It’s just a silly, little light bulb. Rather a harmless little guy. Oh, occasionally, it will bite your fingers with a little burn bite, but otherwise quite friendly. And yet, it will be contraband very soon- 2012- just a few months away. And what does BIG BROTHER want you to buy? Oh, just mercury ridden CFL bulbs that barely give any light (you know, the twisty bulbs?). And God forbid you drop one- You will need the EPA to come to your home with hazmat gear to clean it up. I’ll just bet that people will be fined for throwing those bad boys in the garbage too. Even better, Big Brother has another light bulb option for you: it is a nice, warm light emitting, environmentally saving LED light bulbs. However, these will not be available over 75 watts for indoor use, ok? And they last a long, long time. Doesn’t that sound great? Price? Oh, just a mere $69.93- per bulb, I did a little experiment and counted the light bulbs on the main floor of my house. I have 64 bulbs. That means that to replace my bulbs on ONE floor will cost approximately, $4,480! Perhaps about $3,000 downstairs. $7,480 total! If I was ALLOWED to have my old, trusty light bulbs, it would only cost $59.84 to replace the 64 light bulbs and under a measly $100 to replace them all. This is TYRANNY. I would really like to see which politicians own stock in LED light bulb companies. I really would. Someone stands to become a trillionaire in 2012. And we, normal hardworking citizens will not take any vacations this year and will probably have to cancel our kids’ piano & gymnastic classes- so that we can afford LIGHT in our house. I guess Environment (no, I didn’t forget the “the” before the word, “environment”) is more important than I or my children are. Environment has greater needs than we do. We should all get used to referring to the environment as a Person- especially since Van Jones is trying to now make it a legal entity, imbued with HUMAN rights. Environment is helpless in the face of my lightbulb crimes and I must be made to pay. My children too.