" Wrap your hot water heater or I will smellerate you!"
Posted on 11/19/2007 6:04:44 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Lest we forget:
GARY ALDRICH
Gary Aldrich’s performance as a white-collar crime investigator vaulted him into the most prestigious FBI job in the nation, protecting the White House first under George Bush and then Bill Clinton. When Clinton was sworn in, red flags popped up like spring tulips. Besides the juvenile shenanigans of skirt-chasing and trashing out America’s First Home, Aldrich discovered the Clintons were actively avoiding background checks on employees at every level, especially with concern to drugs. Later, it became obvious America’s security institutions were being ignored and dismantled as well.
Aldrich weighed his options. Should he say nothing? Or for love of country, stand up, blow the whistle and face the wrath of the most powerful man on Earth and his battery of very corrupt staffers and goons? He’d seen the Travel Office scandal. He knew about the stolen FBI files. And he certainly knew the history of the Clinton political machine, leaving a 20-year trail of figurative and literal dead bodies. Yet Aldrich chose nation first, exposing the Clinton regime in his book Unlimited Access.
Immediately, the full weight of the renegade Clinton government was brought to bear. Aldrich was relentlessly libeled and slandered by a never ending procession of Clinton servants and thugs. George Stephanopolous repeatedly called Aldrich a “pathological liar.” Mike McCurry called the book “pure fiction” and a “piece of garbage.” The doubts were sown. Instead of investigating, the media dutifully piled on. Pressure inside the FBI was exceptional as well, though Aldrich politely names few names. And his relatively insulated family life was gone forever. Aldrich became a pariah in a town that gives no quarter. After all, where does a scorned and soiled FBI agent get his next job?
And how did Time handle Gary Aldrich’s noble stand? They repeatedly labeled Aldrich’s claims as “unsubstantiated rumors,” making sure readers knew he was “backed” by conservative groups funded by Newt Gingrich allies, his publisher sold books by a “Los Angeles police officer who beat Rodney King,” and his publicist was connected to Bob Dole and Paula Jones. They even rumored Aldrich refused Congressional hearings to maximize book tour profits. Over the next few years, of course, virtually every aspect of Aldrich’s book was proven true except for the name of the hotel Bill Clinton used to shag babes. He apologized for that one.
Aldrich did far more than reveal the Sex Toy Christmas Tree and White House bathroom nookie. He exposed a drug-infested bunch of constitution-trampling criminals, who should have been tossed out at the least, tried for treason and jailed at worst. His entire life was upended, and his reputation mercilessly attacked. Gary won’t say anything, but the strain on his life, family and marriage could not have been greater. But ask him if he’d do it again, this noble man answers, “Of course. It was my destiny. It was my obligation. How could I do anything else?”
When Coleen Rowley came forward, the press escorted her on gilded lilies, leading the national applause. Aldrich? Time Magazine made sure Gary Aldrich felt the maximum pain for his sin of defiance. And he never made the cover.
http://www.americandaily.com/article/1400
LOL!
" Wrap your hot water heater or I will smellerate you!"
A better thing is to put a timer on the water heater. Especially if no one is home all day. Makes the heater last longer. Off all night and one an hour or so before you wake then off after you leave for work. Even if someone is home, the hot water can be used at specific times. A timer is about $18 or so and can be installed by anyone or an electrician. Easy to do.
Yep. If I want it colder, I turn it down.
When I want it warmer, I turn it up.
More Jimmyisms:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1637742/posts
“The 55-mile speed limit really does lower gas usage.
And wherever it can be required, and the people will accept it, we ought to do it,” Clinton said at the National Press Club.
“We had a new hot water heater installed last week and I asked the guy about using the blanket, no way it will kill the warranty.”
Then the guy who installed your water heater is a total moron. The companies that make water heaters even recommend using an added blanket if the heater is in an unheated space like the basement or attic.
The congress will do nothing that might impact their comfort, but they will buy carbon offsets from business partners of Algore using your tax money.
And, like Babs Streisand, I am sure that she is leading the way by doing this in HER house!!
Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!
Put some ice on it.
The best insulation you can get is what is in Thermotron environmental chambers. Those go from +200 C to - 100 C with liquid nitrogen. It’s poly-something. You need a mask when cutting that foam stuff to replace broken parts.
Actually, a lot of the newer water heaters have extra insulation built in to them that have the same effect. At least that’s what the installer told me last year when I had to replace our water heater.
Then again, if you live in a real cold part of the country (say, Chappaqua, NY), a little extra insulation might not hurt to guard against the frigidity emanating from the Ice Queen.
Caligula, deux.
Here’s another one...Tap ANWR!!
It would weigh about 480#; when burned it would weigh around 1500# as CO2 gas.
Blankets can conserve perhaps 10% of the lost energy in the coldest months which might show up as savings of 5% overall or about 75#.
This summer I finally gave up and switched the fixture over the laundry area in the garage because the fluorescent (electronic ballast) kept going out on hot days.
I heat the laundry area on laundry days in the winter and the old fluorescent would work once the heat was on then, but the rest of the garage lighting was at half brilliance or just a flicker.
I resorted to installing dummy thermostats on the walls next to the “goose-bumped” complainers.
Legionaires’ disease became a problem after institutions lowered their heated water to 120F; they inadvertently created an ideal incubation environment in all the water delivery devices.
I keep my water heater at 155F to ensure sanitization during flushing of systems.
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