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GaelicSoxFan
08-10-2007, 11:48 AM
The myth:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,288684,00.html

The truth:

http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200707/mrgreen_mailbag.asp

The confirmation:

http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/cfl.asp
samram
08-10-2007, 11:56 AM
From the Fox article:

So with the potential for contamination and the currently limited ways to recycle CFLs, should we still use them? Absolutely.

As stated above, even if a CFL is thrown in the trash and the mercury it contains leaks out, it still puts less mercury in the environment than a regular, incandescent bulb, according to the EPA.

Though they don't contain mercury, incandescent bulbs are still lit by electricity, which is often generated by coal-burning plants.

I'm not sure how Fox or the writer embarrassed themselves. The articles were really on two separate issues regarding CFLs (home clean-up and recycling), but both agree they're more environmentally friendly.

If I'm missing the point, let me know, as it is hardly a rare occurrence.
GaelicSoxFan
08-10-2007, 12:07 PM
I'd be willing to bet that this story was edited for TV to show only negative aspects. Fox News tends to do that.
Dan Mega
08-10-2007, 12:19 PM
I'd be willing to bet that this story was edited for TV to show only negative aspects. Fox News tends to do that.

Uh, as does CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, BCC, Al Jazeera, etc.

All news is insanely slanted. Fox News is slanted to the right which is why its attacked the most.
CaptainBallz
08-10-2007, 12:22 PM
Fox is incapable of embarrassment.
GaelicSoxFan
08-10-2007, 12:24 PM
Uh, as does CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, BCC, Al Jazeera, etc.

All news is insanely slanted. Fox News is the media arm of the Republican Party which is why its attacked the most.

Fixed it.
CaptainBallz
08-10-2007, 12:24 PM
All news is insanely slanted. Fox News is slanted to the right which is why its attacked the most.

No, they're attacked the most for being a full-blown propaganda network that sells itself as an actual news source.
Prope
08-10-2007, 12:26 PM
:ballzisrightactuallyleftinthiscase:
CaptainBallz
08-10-2007, 12:28 PM
I transcend the left-right dynamic, prope
Pick a name, Buddy
08-12-2007, 08:31 PM
No, they're attacked the most for being a full-blown propaganda network that sells itself as an actual news source.


That explains the ratings chasm! :rolleyes:
CaptainBallz
08-12-2007, 09:32 PM
That explains the ratings chasm! :rolleyes:

:confused:

Back in the day, a few friends of mine started a band called Chasm. They sucked.

Anyway.... what??
Spider_Pig
08-12-2007, 09:47 PM
The news is always too depressingly negative. So I usually try to just avoid it. Most of the "news" is all garbage anyways.
Pick a name, Buddy
08-12-2007, 09:56 PM
:confused:

Back in the day, a few friends of mine started a band called Chasm. They sucked.

Anyway.... what??

They should have gotten Kasim to play bass! ;)
GaelicSoxFan
08-12-2007, 10:07 PM
The news is always too depressingly negative. So I usually try to just avoid it. Most of the "news" is all garbage anyways.
I watch it if I'm really bored.
Spider_Pig
08-12-2007, 10:10 PM
I watch it if I'm really bored.Me too, but mostly just for weather and sports. Everything else I can really pass on.
samram
08-12-2007, 10:21 PM
That explains the ratings chasm! :rolleyes:

I think Fox's ratings are buoyed by a good number of attractive women in short skirts being on the air. That's the real cable news war. News is news otherwise.
Pick a name, Buddy
08-12-2007, 10:23 PM
We should hang out.



i trust that one day we will. And I will foreverafter be known as "old funny dood" and I will marvel at your babe-charming ways.

Actually, I get to town every October for the Bridal Market, but we are not coming this year unfortunately.
Spider_Pig
08-12-2007, 10:25 PM
I think Fox's ratings are buoyed by a good number of attractive women in short skirts being on the air. That's the real cable news war. News is news otherwise.
That's not that incredibly wrong though. Unprofessional, sure. But wrong, nah. ;)
samram
08-12-2007, 10:28 PM
^ I'm very much in favor of the hot-women-in-skirts-reading-the-news approach. It should be taught in journalism schools.
CaptainBallz
08-12-2007, 10:29 PM
I think Fox's ratings are buoyed by a good number of attractive women in short skirts being on the air. That's the real cable news war. News is news otherwise.

amazingly, that's not even their lowest common denominator.
Pick a name, Buddy
08-12-2007, 10:30 PM
I took journalism and I HATED wearing those flunkin' skirts!
samram
08-12-2007, 10:33 PM
:)
GaelicSoxFan
08-12-2007, 10:34 PM
While eating dinner?I don't eat dinner at 10pm, dumbass :D .
Spider_Pig
08-12-2007, 10:39 PM
In honor of skirts and the ever shrinking process:

:yippee: :rock: :thumbsup: :dance:

Now that's a thoughtful post.
GaelicSoxFan
08-12-2007, 10:40 PM
Chuck's makes a kick ass Buffalo Chicken sandwich.
Not the Chuck's I'm thinking of on 102nd & Western?
Pick a name, Buddy
08-12-2007, 10:42 PM
Not the Chuck's I'm thinking of on 102nd & Western?

Is that considered Evergreen Park?
GaelicSoxFan
08-12-2007, 10:43 PM
Is that considered Evergreen Park?No. Only up to 99th St. is Evergreen.
samram
08-12-2007, 10:43 PM
Wow, what a thoughtful post. Instead of posting something worthwhile, I'm just gonna toss up a smilie. Come on man, don't sink to my level.

:D

I had something else for that post, but then I forgot what it was. Something about Fuller making sacrifices for his craft or what not. My brain shuts down after midnight and coherent thoughts are a combination of coincidence and luck.
GaelicSoxFan
08-12-2007, 10:44 PM
79TH & CENTRAL IN BURBANK, YOU TARDI've never ordered from there.
CaptainBallz
08-12-2007, 10:44 PM
THis hijack sucks.. and will continue to suck until I start ignoring it.. which I'm not going to do...
GaelicSoxFan
08-12-2007, 10:47 PM
EP goes south of 99th



:omg:
Not on Western it doesn't.
Pick a name, Buddy
08-12-2007, 10:52 PM
According to Mapquest, 102nd & Artesian (1 blk west of Western) is still Chicago

Linky (http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?formtype=address&addtohistory=&address=10200%20S%20Artesian%20Ave&city=Chicago&state=IL&zipcode=60655%2d1050&country=US&geodiff=1)
GaelicSoxFan
08-12-2007, 10:56 PM
The dividing line between Chicago and Evergreen Park between 99th & 103rd Streets is California Avenue.
Pick a name, Buddy
08-12-2007, 10:56 PM
I love maps. And discussion of Chicagoland streets and neighbourhoods

Without looking, 10 bonus points to anyone who can name all of the "K" streets in Oak Lawn between Pulaski and Cicero (10 extra points if they are in order east to west)

DOUBLE BONUS: one street does not begin with a K. name it.
Spider_Pig
08-12-2007, 10:57 PM
I liked the hot weather girl in skirt conversation better. :(
samram
08-12-2007, 11:00 PM
Kostner, Kilborn, Kolmar, that's all I got. I can't remember which one Christ Hospital is on. Maybe that's Kostner. :shrug:

I liked the hot weather girl in skirt conversation better. :(

Someone on WSI had a sig with a pic of three Fox News girls sitting around a coffee table in miniskirts.
Spider_Pig
08-12-2007, 11:02 PM
Oh, to be an intern at a news station... Coffee ladies?
Pick a name, Buddy
08-12-2007, 11:03 PM
Kostner, Kilborn, Kolmar, that's all I got. I can't remember which one Christ Hospital is on. Maybe that's Kostner. :shrug:



Someone on WSI had a sig with a pic of three Fox News girls sitting around a coffee table in miniskirts.

Christ is on Kostner, but don't tell that to Erik the Red.

Three points for Sam
Prope
08-12-2007, 11:06 PM
I love maps. And discussion of Chicagoland streets and neighbourhoods

Without looking, 10 bonus points to anyone who can name all of the "K" streets in Oak Lawn between Pulaski and Cicero (10 extra points if they are in order east to west)

DOUBLE BONUS: one street does not begin with a K. name it.
Kolin, Kenton, Kildare, Kilbourne, Keeler, Kilpatrick

Tripp is the one without the 'k'

Kostner, fogot about that one.

Shit, I should know this, I live on one of those 'k' streets in Midlothian.

Karlov
Pick a name, Buddy
08-12-2007, 11:10 PM
Nice work Prope! Although the judges tell me that I have to dock a half point for tacking the "e" onto the end of Kilbourn.

16.5 points with the bonus!
Prope
08-12-2007, 11:11 PM
No, fuck that.

It is spelled, Kilbourne.

I had to look the rest of them up,

Knox, Kenneth, Keystone.

And Keating. Shit I'm horrible.

From East to West...
Keating, Kilpatrick, Knox, Kenton, Kolmar, Kilbourne, Kenneth, Kostner, Kolin, Kildare, Tripp, Keeler, Kedvale, Karlov, Keystone
maurice
08-12-2007, 11:24 PM
Chucks in Burbank has real BBQ . . . with smoke and everything.
Pick a name, Buddy
08-12-2007, 11:32 PM
No, fuck that.

It is spelled, Kilbourne.

I had to look the rest of them up,

Knox, Kenneth, Keystone.

And Keating. Shit I'm horrible.

From East to West...
Keating, Kilpatrick, Knox, Kenton, Kolmar, Kilbourne, Kenneth, Kostner, Kolin, Kildare, Tripp, Keeler, Kedvale, Karlov, Keystone

That was actually west to east. And in the OL, Keystone is called "Komensky"
Deuce
08-13-2007, 08:06 AM
Chucks in Burbank has real BBQ . . . with smoke and everything.

Chuck's Southern Comfort Cafe (http://www.chuckscafe.com/)

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/f/f9/180px-Chappellejackson.jpg

"Mmmmm, mmmmmm bitch!"
ewokpelts
08-13-2007, 08:52 AM
I live on Komensky....or cominsky , or comiskey, depending on who you ask
Prope
08-13-2007, 08:54 AM
That was actually west to east. And in the OL, Keystone is called "Komensky"
Eh, bite me.
Spider_Pig
08-13-2007, 10:35 AM
Yeah, skirts are cool.

What?
Pick a name, Buddy
08-13-2007, 12:52 PM
http://www.soxandthecity.net/forums/showpost.php?p=79046&postcount=30

http://www.soxandthecity.net/forums/showpost.php?p=79058&postcount=33

Geez, I am starting to redux my old threads?!?! It is the first sign of old age and decrepidness.

Ok, the 14the sign, GMAFB!

Wait! I did not post in that thread! I am

:vindicated:
thewalkoffshot
08-13-2007, 02:38 PM
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classic fox news here. epic lulz.
Prope
08-13-2007, 02:44 PM
^ West is the hacker who is stopping the Lulz.
gbergman
08-13-2007, 03:45 PM
Yea the fox article is wrong but guess what as was said earlier CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, BCC, Al Jazeera and all other news channels slant left. I love the fact that liberals only bring up Fox news errors and ommissions not liberal networks or newspapers
maurice
08-13-2007, 04:03 PM
Assuming for the sake of argument that Al Jazeera slants in favor of Islamo-fascism, that would mean that they slant right.

Also, major print and radio overwhelming slant to the right.
Bonzosa
08-13-2007, 04:18 PM
I guess I don't understand what is so wrong about the FOX article.
Yes it is sensationalized a bit, but not unlike any MSNBC or CNN story.
CFL's have mercury in them and they do pose a disposal problem. The problem is most Americans are too lazy to save the spent bulbs and return them to a proper recycler like Home Depot or a municipal recycle facility.
So in great numbers they pose a problem.
What is dishonest about that?

I liken this problem to the Prius, which is hailed as the next coming even though they require massive amounts of nickel in order to produce their batteries. Nickel production is an especially environmentally degrading process. However, this is overlooked because people feel better about themselves driving if they can do it in the "guilt-free billboard" that is the Prius.
Hey, look at me! I am saving the earth while I drive!

Read this article (http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20070404_Hidden_cost_of_driving_a_Prius.html), its based on research from an Oregon organization that analyzed the environmental impacts of vehicles based on the materials made to use the cars, costs to maintain and the expected lifespan of a vehicle.
Very interesting info I believe.