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RUSH: In today\u2019s Boston Globe: ‘[I]f a compact fluorescent breaks, get children and pets out of the room. Ventilate the room. Never use a vacuum, even on a rug, to clean up a broken compact fluorescent lamps. Instead, use stiff paper such as index cards and tape to pick up pieces, and then wipe the area with a wet wipe or damp paper towel. If there are young children or pregnant woman in the house, consider cutting out the piece of carpet where the lamp broke as a precaution. Place the shards and cleanup debris in a glass jar with a screw top and remove the jar from the house.\u2019 This is what you gotta do when one of these compact fluorescent bulbs breaks. You can\u2019t just take it to the trash dump, either. You have to call hazmat to have this stuff properly disposed of. ‘Most states allow intact compact fluorescents to be thrown away, but some — such as Vermont, Minnesota, and California — ban disposal\u2019 of intact compact fluorescent bulbs ‘in trash … Massachusetts is also ramping up a compact fluorescent recycling program and in May will ban disposal of any intact compact fluorescent lamp in trash.\u2019 <\/p>\n

I don\u2019t know how long before the lawsuits. It won\u2019t be long. But these are the things that have been mandated, folks. ‘To reduce our carbon footprint, Mr. Limbaugh! Yes, we must engage in this safety procedure, Mr. Limbaugh, to save the earth.\u2019 I get so sick and tired of the New Castrati being in charge of everybody\u2019s lives like this. The incandescent bulb is destroying the planet! It is so, frankly, ridiculous and absurd that it insults my intelligence, and it worries me when so many people are so mind-numbed that they go along with these charades and make themselves feel like they\u2019re actually doing something to improve their lives. The headline in the Boston Globe story, by the way, is: ‘Mercury Leaks Found as New Bulbs Break — Energy Benefits of Fluorescents May Outweigh Risk.\u2019 Oh, really? So now we\u2019re going to put mercury…? <\/p>\n

When is the last time a bunch of liberals downplayed the risk of something? Wait \u2019til the trial lawyers get hold of this. Downplay the risk? ‘Energy Benefits of Fluorescents May Outweigh Risk\u2019? You asked for it, you got it. You vote liberal Democrat, this is what you get. When you\u2019re going to allow a bunch of bureaucrats to turn over as much of your freedom as you have, this is what you get. When you buy into hoaxes and silly things that a little examination with your own common sense can tell you is not true — such as incandescent lightbulbs are destroying the planet, causing global warming — if you\u2019re going to buy into this tripe, then you deserve what you get. You deserve it. The problem is, we\u2019re all going to get it, too, because of people\u2019s stupidity. We\u2019re not going to have a choice to put compact fluorescents in our houses or not. <\/p>\n

You can\u2019t dim these things, can you? I\u2019m not that familiar, but I don\u2019t think you can. I think I\u2019ve heard people say that you can\u2019t dim them; in other words, put \u2019em on dimmers. If this actually happens… You guys have been to my house. If this actually happens, I\u2019ll have to tear the whole wall out. I\u2019ll have to tear everything apart. There\u2019s no way. I am not going to have a bunch of spaghetti looking lightbulbs on display from the ceiling, accent lighting for various pictures on the wall. They are crazy. I\u2019m not going to take \u2019em out. I\u2019ll just tell you (sigh), folks, it ain\u2019t going to happen. I wonder, however, if I could put some compact fluorescents outside in my landscape lighting and not have to turn \u2019em off for the turtle season because they\u2019re safer and they\u2019re more energy efficient and so forth, and maybe the turtles won\u2019t even be able to see them. Fat chance. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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