Just as I suspected. All liberals are luddites.............
“...we haven’t elected a Yankee president in nearly 50 years. Honestly, I don’t want something like that in my house. Especially if I have to pay for it.”
Froma grammatical standpoint, I can’t determine whether it is air conditioners or Yankee Presidents which he does not want in his house. Can someone help me out here?
;^)
It was all done for the bragging rights of being purer than others. I can just see them now, sitting in a steaming hot house with sweat pouring down their faces, instructing their children that air conditioning is for Republicans.
I suppose that conversely, then, we could argue that in-home heating produced northern liberals?
It sounds like he longs to live in Europe.
I tell all my liberal friends that if they want to reduce their carbon footprint just turn off the AC and hang their clothes on the clothesline outside.
They never seem to want to do that.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?
I think the desire to continue having AC makes *smart* people vote Republican.
susie
Sounds like AC should be credited for saving what remaining, competitive manufacturing base we have in this country.
Paging AARP....
No, common sense does.
The most destructive legacy of air conditioning is that it’s use has inflicted us with year-round Congress. BAC, Congress used to escape the confines of Washington during the oppressively hot summers. Curse you Willis Carrier.
Don’t know if air conditioners make people vote Republican but government checks sure make the vote DemocRat.
Is it catty to point out that almost everyone in Maine has a heater? And that they use it during the winter?
It’s the Air Conditioner.
It is not the constant leftward drift of the Democrat Party and the fact that the party core has been siezed by radical activists of every conceivable stripe. It is not that your average voter feels no connection to a party leadership that spends more time reading Saul Alinsky than Mark Twain. It is not that the Democrat Party actively works for the defeat of the country and the destruction of our entire way of life. It is not that the Democrat Party spits on our soldiers and refuses to salute the flag.
No, it’s the Air Conditioner.
I grew up in Maine, and I've never heard that. Pretty much, we just complained when it was cold in the winter, and complained when it was hot in the summer.
I'll take a wild guess and assume that this "journalist" spent a few weeks in Maine one summer, and now calls himself a "Mainer". Whatta Dip.
LOL,
My goodness Edward, how long did it take for you to type up this silly accumulation of words?
It must be nice to know that no matter how ridiculous the topic, or how poorly written the hit piece, there will always be a silly little Leftist site like Salon.com who will pay you some greenbacks for it.
I think that your mama “spared the rod and spoiled the child” Edward.
Edward, put a sign on your ceiling and all your walls that says “Edward, go get a real job and become a benefit to society!”
It’s real important that you follow the advice on that sign Edward, because all that hate and bile roiling around inside you is gonna kill you sooner than later.
This is actually a pretty entertaining story if you read the whole thing. Reminds me of the joke about how “cool” Austin used to be ...
Q) How many Austinites does it take to change a light bulb?
A) 10. 1 to change the bulb and 9 to tell you how cool the old one was.
Thanks for posting libstripper. ;o)
Arizonans might say "If you can't stand the summers you don't deserve the winters." You see with heating oil or wood burning stoves, citizens of Maine can enjoy those warm Arizonan winter days in the comfort of their homes.
See how that works dipshit? (not you, the writer of course.)
absent the political tripe, i love articles like this. the advent of AC and how it led to a migration to the south is fascinating and something we rarely think about.