Say No to Compact Fluorescent

Will Poor People Get Free Light Bulbs From the Nanny State??

Just yesterday my hubby and I were discussing the upcoming ban on regular incandescent light bulbs set to hit in 2012. I understand some "designer" bulbs, like those used in chandeliers, will still be available, but you can bet the price will skyrocket.

I don't like bright light, and have dimmer switches on many of my lamps. Most of the other lamps never get over a 40 watt bulb or at most, a 60 watter.  The only place I have high wattage bulbs is in the closets (can't wear one blue and one black sock, doncha know.) Using lower wattage lights and dimmer switches uses less electricity than replacing all fixtures with ugly, compact fluorescents, which I absolutely refuse to use. Not to mention cfl's cost TEN times more and in many cases don't last more than a few months!


I have been looking around for information on storing light bulbs. Today on "Big Government", a post entitled ReasonTV: Light Bulbs v. The Nanny State (that deserves a read), a commenter seemed to be pretty knowledgeable about the subject.  I guess that means I won't have to bother The BlogProf with my question about the storage of light bulbs. I figure if anyone had an answer, he would.

Jules commented:
Already got about a fifty year supply of long-life incandescents set aside. If you buy the long-life bulbs, it's not that many, so storage is only a couple of large boxes. Bulbs don't go bad or expire. Plus, buying them now, before the inevitable price run up as the dollar collapses, should net at least four times the bang for the buck.

 Thanks, Jules!

Elizabeth: Check out this post and accompanying picture to help clarify some of my "innuendos".  And isn't what you said to me an innuendo??

The Blog Prof:  Astroturf FAIL! Obama minions hand out lab coats to liberal doctors for photo op

I'm off to get my hair cut and run some errands. Once again my Google Reader has climbed to over 1000, and over at Adrienne dePitera I've signed onto a Ten Tasks in Ten Days Challenge. What was I thinking?? 


No more playing nice while I'm gone. Be as down and dirty as you wish!

Choose Freedom or Be Part of the Nanny State

Across the middle of the pages of my homemade organizer, I have the words, "I Decide, I Choose, I Will." It is a prompt to change my thinking and help curb my propensity toward procrastination. It reminds me that I am free to choose what I do, or don't do. It makes much more sense than the tape loop most of us have running in our heads saying, "I must or I should."

Due to government intervention in my life, however, much of the time I can't decide or choose what I want to do. The government, both state and federal, has over the years encroached to an alarming degree in our decision making. This has happened incrementally so the average person, busy earning a living or just living life, has gone along with the mandates handed down from our government bureaucrats.

In a civilized society we are in need of rules and I'm certainly not suggesting we throw out all laws and constraints. But having the government controlling every aspect of my life is not how I "choose" to live.

Obama's push for the ultimate control through his "healthcare reform" has triggered a backlash I doubt the folks on the left were expecting. The people of this country are resisting, not just because they know government-run healthcare won't work, but mainly because they see their liberties being eroded. Marxists and self-proclaimed communists of the most corrupt White House ever, have woefully underestimated the level of tyranny and oppression the American people would tolerate.

Dr. Sanity has a wonderful article "Choices" posted today. In it she says:

The Founders understood very well that "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness" require that government be kept small and limited in its scope, otherwise it will inevitably encroach on these natural rights that define the American character. If individuals do not take personal responsibility for their own life; if government is allowed to make most of the important choices for you, then you have either voluntarily and willingly relinquished your natural rights; or they have been taken from you against your will.

In either case, you will eventually realize that you are living under a tyranny--perhaps a soft, comfortable and infantalizing tyranny--but a tyranny nonetheless.

This choice--voluntarily relinquishing the natural right to your own life; your liberty; and the pursuit of your own happiness; versus standing against tyranny (even soft tyranny done "for your own good") defines the American character.

I suggest you read the entire article. It's excellent!

As for me - I prefer to follow my little prompt of: I Choose, I Decide, I Will...

More to read:

Obama's Corruption
Government Drives Up the Cost of Healthcare
Where Do We Get Our Rights