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…researches advised that customers exercise caution and stay two feet away from the bulbs at all times…
recently…
The New Year means lights out for 75-watt light bulbs. As of January 1st, under federal law, 75-watt incandescent bulbs can no longer be produced or imported. Retailers can still sell existing stock until they run out.
The government is gradually phasing out incandescent bulbs in favor of more energy-efficient, LEDs halogens or compact fluorescent bulbs.
One hundred watt incandescent bulbs were retired last year. Traditional 60 and 40-watt bulbs will be phased out in 2014.
“The group photo showed four House members who arrived too late to pose on the Capitol steps. A computer program was used to add them to the image later posted on Flickr…
…But Pelosi maintains the picture is still an accurate historical representation. “Pelosi told a news conference Friday the picture was an accurate historical record of the female lawmakers from her party. She also said it was freezing outside, and that the members were entertaining guests on the day they were sworn in for the 113th Congress…
Yvette Clark, the U.S. Representative for New York’s 11th congressional district doesn’t know that John BoehnerObama is the president………just like George Bush.
President Obama comforted you and offered you “immediate” assistance. Since your encounter with him months ago, what has been your interaction with the White House?
After his visit, I sent an email to President Obama. Many days later, I got a response back. It was disturbing.
How so?
It had nothing to do with what I was asking him. It was a form letter. It thanked me for supporting the troops….
OBESE people who refuse to go to exercise classes prescribed by GPs face having their benefits docked.
Westminster Council yesterday proposed giving claimants swipe cards which show they have been.
Council leader Philippa Roe said: “The potential improvements to the nation’s health and to the public purse could be significant.”
The British Medical Association called the plan “silly” and said the best way to cut the £5.1billion cost of Britain’s obesity epidemic is to stop food outlets selling fatty grub.
The Daughters of the American Revolution, one of the nation’s oldest patriotic organizations, has erased any mention of Jesus Christ in their official book, removed prayers and poems that reference Christian imagery, and directed members to refrain from praying in the name of Christ, an outraged group of members alleged.
The dispute has been brewing for more than a year when DAR members learned that the newly revised Ritual and Missal books – the primary guide for chaplains – were altered. They noticed that the name of Jesus Christ had been omitted…
mech
Senator Dianne Feinstein,
I will not register my weapons should this bill be passed, as I do not believe it is the government’s right to know what I own. Nor do I think it prudent to tell you what I own so that it may be taken from me by a group of people who enjoy armed protection yet decry me having the same a crime. You ma’am have overstepped a line that is not your domain. I am a Marine Corps Veteran of 8 years, and I will not have some woman who proclaims the evil of an inanimate object, yet carries one, tell me I may not have one.
I am not your subject. I am the man who keeps you free. I am not your servant. I am the person whom you serve. I am not your peasant. I am the flesh and blood of America. I am the man who fought for my country. I am the man who learned. I am an American. You will not tell me that I must register my semi-automatic AR-15 because of the actions of some evil man.
I will not be disarmed to suit the fear that has been established by the media and your misinformation campaign against the American public.
We, the people, deserve better than you.
Respectfully Submitted,
Joshua Boston, Cpl, United States Marine Corps, 2004-2012
Somebody buy Cpl Boston a beer!
You know … NUTS!
Al Jazeera on Wednesday completed a deal to take over Current TV, the low-rated cable channel that was founded by Al Gore…
in case you missed this part:
… [ foreign company ]Al Jazeera did not disclose the purchase price, but people with direct knowledge of the deal pegged it at around $500 million, indicating a $100 million payout for Mr. Gore, who owned 20 percent of Current. Mr. Gore and his partners were eager to complete the deal by Dec. 31, lest it be subject to higher tax rates that took effect on Jan. 1…
Mr. Hyatt said they agreed to sell to Al Jazeera in part because “Al Jazeera was founded with the same goals we had for Current,” including “to give voice to those whose voices are not typically heard” and “to speak truth to power.” Other suitors who didn’t share Current’s ideology were rebuffed. Glenn Beck’s The Blaze approached Current about buying the channel last year, but was told that “the legacy of who the network goes to is important to us and we are sensitive to networks not aligned with our point of view,” according to a person familiar with the negotiations…
and previously before that…
President Barack Obama is back in Hawaii for vacation after a tense, end-of-the-new-year standoff with Congress over the fiscal cliff. [more]
Well, hey, why not? I mean he worked his butt off on this crisis, right?
Right?
The White House had no immediate update on when Obama would receive and sign the bill.
Wait … he didn’t even stick around long enough to firkkin’ sign the bill?!
Then, there’s this … pesky little detail.
The wide-ranging deal, approved by the Senate earlier ….
Maybe I’m missin’ somethin’, here; but this looks unconstitutional as Hell.
(Article I, Section 7: All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives ….)
Nev-er-mind
Sigivald
(D’oh!)
on this?!?
It was 2am 1/1/13 when this passed.
No. Excuse.
Income tax rates will only rise on those making over $400K (liberals wanted $250K, GOP wanted no taxes to rise). Spending cuts will be delayed for 2 months to give the sides more time to address them.
These are included in the 2am Special, so won’t be addressed in 2 months or 2 years.
It’s called ‘‘American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012’’ RTWT, if you can stand it.
*sigh*
These @$$#0(3$ can’t manage to say no to any lobby nor opportunity for social engineering.
See Title !V — Energy Tax Extenders
Extension of credit for:
energy-efficient existing homes.
alternative fuel vehicle refueling property.
2- or 3-wheeled plug-in electric vehicles.
cellulosic biofuel producer credit
incentives for biodiesel and renewable diesel.
production credit for Indian coal facilities placed in service before 2009.
credits with respect to facilities producing energy from certain renewable resources.
credit for energy-efficient new homes.
credit for energy-efficient appliances.
special allowance for cellulosic biofuelplant property.
alternative fuels excise tax credits.
“cellulosic” Swell.
Like this.
for more than $1
[Intel is making a] …set-top box, said by industry insiders to be available to a limited beta of customers in March, [which] will offer cable channels delivered “over the top” to televisions anywhere there is an Internet connection regardless of provider.
…For the first time, consumers will be able to subscribe to content per channel, unlike bundled cable services, and you may also be able to subscribe per show as well. Intel’s set-top box will also have access to Intel’s already existing app marketplace for apps, casual games, and video on demand. Leveraging the speed of current broadband, and the vast shared resources of the cloud, Intel plans to give customers the ability to use “Cloud DVR”, a feature intended to allow users to watch any past TV show at any time, without the need to record it ahead of time, pause live tv, and rewind shows in progress.
O’ course the “why it won’t work” argument against Intel includes the old “it’s cheaper when we make you buy it” meme.
Disney, for instance, charges TV distributors about $5 for every subscriber that gets ESPN. And, by some estimates, only about 25 percent of cable customers actually watch ESPN on a regular basis. So if you unbundled ESPN, the per-subscriber cost might shoot up to $20 or more, to account for the 75 percent drop in its customer base.
I would counter that with the savings from just three channels I don’t want, I could afford one that I do want. Add up all the stupid “shopping,” sports, religious, teen, “urban,” “women’s,” children’s, and The Loser Channel channels at $5 each, I could afford the Western channel, RFD 1 & 2, and several old Movie channels — with $$$ left over for snax!!
Go Intel!
[nothing too optimistic in their stock prices but overall DOW futures are up 200 points on "fiscal cliff" "resolution" legislation][??!?!][As are world markets][??!?!?!?]["fundamentals" - whassat?]
(What, me? Well, I resolve to look back on 2013 with a degree of satisfaction tinged with a little guilt.)
via KaChing
do nothing and over-react
The incident began as an argument and fight inside the Sports Corner Café at Second and K streets [in SacTown] about 9:30 p.m…. A 22-year-old man involved in the fight pulled out a gun and shot at the people he was fighting with as a bar employee attempted to break up the scuffle,
Two dead – three wounded.
An armed security guard near a side door heard the gunshots, confronted the shooter inside the bar and the two exchanged gunfire, police said.
Both the suspect and the security guard were shot during the exchange.
So, of course:
The fireworks show in Old Sacramento [that was expected to draw as many as 40,000 people] was canceled after the incident at the request of the police department…
Gun control has never been about firearms.
It’s always been about the right to self-defense and self-determination.
Always.
One of the definitions of a nation state is that the state has a monopoly on legitimate violence. And the state ought to have a monopoly on legitimate violence.
Extra credit:
Who said the following: King GeorgeIII* or the state-worshiping jackass above?
Note: It’s magazines, not clips, dammit! (Explained in the BTF lesson here.)If the premise of your question is that people are going to resist a tyrannical government by shooting [gov't] troops, that’s insane …. [more]
“Something Must Be Done!”
…again, what “something”?
The Prog Tool-Blamers… Walking blithely down the street with their dress tucked in their pantyhose.
This guy seems to embody their argument with all its …nuance.
Full text here:
- Repeal the Second Amendment, the part about guns anyway. It’s badly written, confusing and more trouble than it’s worth. It offers an absolute right to gun ownership, but it puts it in the context of the need for a “well-regulated militia.” We don’t make our militia bring their own guns to battles. And surely the Founders couldn’t have envisioned weapons like those used in the Newtown shooting when they guaranteed gun rights. Owning a gun should be a privilege, not a right.
- Declare the NRA a terrorist organization and make membership illegal. Hey! We did it to the Communist Party, and the NRA has led to the deaths of more of us than American Commies ever did. (I would also raze the organization’s headquarters, clear the rubble and salt the earth, but that’s optional.) Make ownership of unlicensed assault rifles a felony. If some people refused to give up their guns, that “prying the guns from their cold, dead hands” thing works for me.
- Then I would tie Mitch McConnell and John Boehner, our esteemed Republican leaders, to the back of a Chevy pickup truck and drag them around a parking lot until they saw the light on gun control.
And if that didn’t work, I’d adopt radical measures.
Fisking BTF: