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Saturday, March 3. 2007

Overheard

One woman to another at a social event tonight: "I've decided that our new addition will have all-electric heat so we don't use oil and cause warming."  (I am not kidding. I heard this. Where I live, 100% of our electric is from gas, coal, and oil.)
Posted by Bird Dog in Politics at 00:30 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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i am not kidding--i believe you--i have heard it too-gives women a bad name but then the new hit show on tv is "are you as smart as a fifth grader?"
#1 mp on 2007-03-03 09:28 (Reply)
OK, but is that the kind of airhead brain that is scared of the weather?
#2 BD on 2007-03-03 10:41 (Reply)
We don't need fossil fuels or nuclear energy or burning wood or any of that. We made our home all electrical, and we get all the electricity we need from those little outlets on the walls.
#3 Bob & Ulli (Link) on 2007-03-03 14:04 (Reply)
How green! I have those little things with holes in them too. But I do keep a fire going. Should I quit fires in my tepee?
#4 BD on 2007-03-03 14:58 (Reply)
airheads of america united --don't you know that the majority of americans do not know that there is a difference between cummulus and calculus?
#5 mp on 2007-03-03 18:10 (Reply)
"I've decided that ..."


ahhh...the new "Decider in Chief".
#6 gumshoe on 2007-03-03 20:16 (Reply)
I think she wears the pants.
#7 BD on 2007-03-03 21:25 (Reply)
"She" has always worn the pants.
#8 mp on 2007-03-04 11:42 (Reply)
"I've decided that our new addition will have all-electric heat so we don't use oil and cause warming." General cluelessness like that is, unfortunately, what gives the Goracle whatever clout he might have.
#9 ELC (Link) on 2007-03-05 10:15 (Reply)

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