How many alarmists does it take to screw in a light bulb?

by flash Frankly, I have no idea. But, I do know how many it takes to screw you… One…and his name rhymes with poor, which is what we all will be if he gets his way….

Steve Milloy of Junk Science writes today:

How much money does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent lightbulb? About $4.28 for the bulb and labor – unless you break the bulb. Then you, like Brandy Bridges of Ellsworth, Maine, could be looking at a cost of about $2,004.28, which doesn’t include the costs of frayed nerves and risks to health.

. . . .

Aware that CFLs contain potentially hazardous substances, Bridges called her local Home Depot for advice. The store told her that the CFL contained mercury and that she should call the Poison Control hotline, which in turn directed her to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.

The DEP sent a specialist to Bridges’ house to test for mercury contamination. The specialist found mercury levels in the bedroom in excess of six times the state’s “safe” level for mercury contamination of 300 billionths of a gram per cubic meter.

full (must read) article here

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Consensus my @$$ !

Consensus:

noun.

1. An opinion or position reached by a group as a whole.
2. General agreement or accord: government by consensus.

The quality or condition of being in complete agreement or harmony: unanimity, unanimousness.

See agree/disagree for more details.

Now that we have that out of the way, please read this….Benny Peiser’s letter to The Journal Science

Sheryl and Laurie…. and other tidbits.

by flash Mark Belling (Milwaukee radio personality, WISN) has an interesting post out at GMToday. The article is dead on regarding the witch hunt taking place in Washington, D. C. – reinforced over the weekend by the actions of two mindless and ignorant socialists: Sheryl Crow and Laurie David (for a real screamer, check out this inconvenient interview by Joe Kernen of this dynamic duo of washed up women.).

Crow and David tried to ruffle Rove’s feathers at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner on Sunday (W. Post account here). Clearly, these two schmucks have received the Washington witch hunt talking and acting points memo… as well as being clearly nothing more than ignorant ho’s for big Al. My recommendation to both (well, all three actually), especially after the CNBC interview: go back and review your flash cards, you’re clearly missing some key math facts. It’s one thing to make an ass of ones self, but then realizing the insanity of it all when you can only use one sheet of tp… Hey Sheryl, one sheet won’t cover this up.

On to Belling…

In their desperate attempt to slime Alberto Gonzales and show that Karl Rove was making political decisions in the Justice Department, Kohl and Feingold are smearing the best federal prosecutor Wisconsin has ever had. The irony is that they are accusing Biskupic of abusing his power for political purposes by conducting a politically motivated investigation.

Let me repeat that. The irony is that Kohl and Feingold are accusing Biskupic of abusing his power by conducting a politically motivated investigation. That’s precisely what they are doing. Who investigates them?

This is all fascinating, and true…. well worth pondering. What was doubly fascinating to me was Belling’s “Political tidbit No. 2″ at the end of the above piece.

Political tidbit No. 2: Republicans in the state Legislature aren’t going to try to kill Governor Doyle’s big oil franchise fee/gas tax increase. That’s because they are as beholden to the state road builders lobby as Doyle. After the road builders successfully targeted Republican state Sen. Tom Reynolds for defeat last fall, most in the GOP are terrified of offending them.

This has led me down a rather circuitous path which will undoubtedly end up with at least another posting on one or the other of these stories – funny how the Global Warming Campus Campaign of Crow and David has now run headlong into the witch hunt for Karl Rove… And there are still people out there who seriously question the political / activist foundations of the ACGW crowd.