The White Male Oppressor Speaks

Well now I must say I am a proud papa. My oldest girl recently finished her first digitally created video to a background song so in brief I would like to share it with you. It is a well done picture slide show put to Mad World as sung by Gary Jules.

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In this world of everyone being brow beaten into going green and saving energy let’s look at one of the most idiotic things that makes me laugh out loud and that would be compact fluorescent bulbs. You know those swirly light bulbs that they are trying to tell you to use to save energy and there by save the world? Well not only is this laughable but those things are also very damaging to the environment that these Green Nazis claim to love so much even, if it interferes with your right to live your life as you see fit.

I know you may be thinking how can those light bulbs that save so much energy be damaging to the environment? For that answer lets refer to the EPA or Environmental Protection Agency. You know one of the many government organizations that tell you how to live your life for the greater good. These energy savers are so harmful that the EPA has written disposal instructions and procedures in case you break one in your house. Let’s have a look shall we at what they say you should do.

First, if one burns out don’t even think about throwing it away (SHAME on you environment hater!) you must take it to an approved recycling center because each one of those bulbs contains an average of 5 mg of mercury. And god forbid you actually drop and break one. If you are unfortunate enough to drop and break one the EPA recommends the following action be taken.

Before clean-up: air out the room

• Have people and pets leave the room, and don’t let anyone walk through the breakage area on their way out.
• Open a window and leave the room for 15 minutes or more.
• Shut off the central forced-air heating/air conditioning system, if you have one.

Cleaning hard surfaces

• Carefully collect glass pieces and powder using stiff paper or cardboard and place them in a glass jar with a metal lid (such as a canning jar) or in a sealed plastic bag.
• Use tape (such as duct tape) to pick up any remaining small glass fragments and powder.
• Wipe the area clean with damp paper towels or disposable wet wipes. Place towels in the glass jar or plastic bag.
• Do not use a vacuum or broom to clean up the broken bulb on hard surfaces.

Cleaning carpeting or rugs

• Carefully pick up glass fragments and place them in a glass jar with metal lid (such as a canning jar) or in a sealed plastic bag.
• Use tape (such as duct tape) to pick up any remaining small glass fragments and powder.
• If vacuuming is needed after all visible materials are removed, vacuum the area where the bulb was broken.
• Remove the vacuum bag (or empty and wipe the canister) and put the bag or vacuum debris in a sealed plastic bag.

Cleaning clothing, bedding and other soft materials

• If clothing or bedding materials come in direct contact with broken glass or mercury-containing powder from inside the bulb that may stick to the fabric, the clothing or bedding should be thrown away. Do not wash such clothing or bedding—since mercury fragments in the clothing may contaminate the machine and/or pollute sewage.
• You can wash clothing or other materials that have been exposed to the mercury vapor from a broken CFL, such as the clothing you are wearing when you cleaned up the broken CFL, as long as that clothing has not come into direct contact with the materials from the broken bulb.
• If shoes come into direct contact with broken glass or mercury-containing powder from the bulb, wipe them off with damp paper towels or disposable wet wipes. Place the towels or wipes in a glass jar or plastic bag for disposal.

Disposal of clean-up materials

• Immediately place all clean-up materials outdoors in a trash container or protected area for the next normal trash pickup.
• Wash your hands after disposing of the jars or plastic bags containing clean-up materials.
• Check with your local or state government about disposal requirements in your specific area. Some states do not allow such trash disposal. Instead, they require that broken and unbroken mercury-containing bulbs be taken to a local recycling center.

Future cleaning of carpeting or rugs

• Air out the room during and after vacuuming.
• The next several times you vacuum, shut off the central forced-air heating/air conditioning system and open a window before vacuuming.
• Keep the central heating/air conditioning system shut off and the window open for at least 15 minutes after vacuuming is completed.

Yes that is right that is what you are supposed to do if you break one of those enviro-killers. I think that I will stay with using the lightbulbs that have worked just fine for nearly 100 years or maybe switch to overly expensive LED lighting.

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I feel as though I need to write on a subject that I have been hearing the “sound byte” academics ranting about, as they wander around spouting half truths and straight out lies as though they are fact. These stunningly uninformed individuals are trying to convince others around them about these lies and fabrications as well. This can no longer be tolerated!

These lies start with something to the effect of,  “It’s time for the rich to start paying their share of the taxes.” Well I would like to address this uninformed banter and baseless claims with a little fact. Based upon what the mainstream media keeps telling you it sounds as though the wealthy in this country don’t pay a dime in taxes, that is absolutely not true. So lets look at the real numbers behind these lies that are even perpetuated by our government and not just fringe leftist whiners who hate rich people because they are not as successful as they think they are entitled to be.

Let’s start with the progressive idea that the wealthy do not pay their fair share in taxes.  (personally I would rather work for a rich person than a poor one because then I would know that my checks would clear, but that is just me) If you asked the average person on the street how much do the wealthy pay of the overall tax burden in this country you would probably get answers that range from as little as 5% to a whopping 15% but this is absolutely wrong. The truth behind who pays the taxes in this country is this. The top 1% of wage earners i.e. the super rich pay 38.8% of the total income tax in the United States. To break that down a little further. The top 10% of the income bracket paid 71%, that’s right the richest 10% of Americans paid 71% of the income tax bill. That’s right but it gets better – the top 50% of wage earners in this country pay just over 97% of the income tax burden. Even though the bottom 50% make 13% of the total income they pay just under 3% of the total income taxes.

The leftist socialist loving crowd (you know the news media and congress) will never admit to these shocking facts that are almost exactly the opposite of what they are constantly trying to shove down the throat of the American people. And a lot of you may be thinking that I am making these numbers up because some hard right wing journalist has said similar numbers on their shows i.e. Sean Hannity or Glenn Beck but unlike the slogan and sound byte sheeple out there I put the proof in the pudding so here is where I got those number (and notice the web addresses are not to Hannity.com or any of the other right wingers web sites.)

Individual Income Tax Rates and Tax Shares, Table 5 – irs.gov – PDF
Congressional Budget Office – Effective Tax Rates – cbo.gov – excel format

This is just the tip of the ice-burg of the lies that the current democratically held congress and white house are saying, even though it is the government itself that proves they are lying. Do the so called journalists in the news media bother to find the truth or just regurgitate the lies? I had first heard these numbers on a local radio program and they were drastically different from what I had been hearing on the news from our non-representing representatives, and leftist activist groups. So I decided to look up the numbers for myself because I do a stupid thing that liberals and progressives hate called thinking.

It took  about 30 minutes on the IRS website mainly because their website is as convoluted as the 17,000 page tax code they have. To put that in perspective War and Peace is only 1463 pages. The Congressional budget office website in contrast only took me about half the time to find the information but then again the CBO is a non governmental number crunching arm. So as I always say do your research before believing the sound bytes.

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