How can you identify a moron?

First, a moron can’t think for themselves and often mock those who are smarter then they are! Second, they often mimic exactly what they perceive to be a popular opinion, when it is not! Third, in order to throw off their opponent, they most likely will spew nonsense that is not relative to any subject matter! Fourth, they often repeat themselves! Fifth, they are almost always wrong!

Okay Toka, let’s see how you measure up against a moron.

First, you suggest (twice) that I am basically a fear monger(er). Wrong! I merely pointed out some facts! Second, you implied that I believe “compact flourescent bulbs” are weapons of mass destruction. Wrong again! No- CFL’s are not WMD’s, they are light bulbs! Third, your mind reading technique isn’t working, because you thought that I would warn people to “Look out for gays”. You are wrong again! Hey, that’s 3 strikes and I think you are out BUCKO! The proof is in the pudding, I guess you are a moron!

Okay, I’ll give you another chance to redeem yourself.

You said, quote “Do you know how hard it is to break the newest compact flourescent bulbs?” My answer is, “No I don’t”. But how would you know? Only a moron would try to break a mercury filled bulb! And if you didn’t break the bulb, then you are still a moron for making such a dumb comment like that! That’s strikes 4 and 5. You aren’t doing so good pal!

Okay . . . I’m just pulling your leg- let’s pretend that you are not a moron. Instead let’s just say you are under-educated! And what I mean by that is this- if you don’t know any better, then I can’t chastise you for being ignorant, especially if you were never taught how to study, research or analyze anything beyond that booger stuck on your finger.

Listen up and learn- because according to the Los Angeles Times, some studies show that only 2% of the CFL’s are ever recycled. That means that 98% of the CFL’s are believed to end up where . . . in the landfill. To help with with the decomposition process, a 10 ton tractor endlessly drives over the garbage heap and moves trash from here to there all day long, thus breaking the CFL’s and releasing the heavy metal toxins into the environment.

When it rains the heavy metal elements leech into the local lakes, rivers, streams and the underground water table as well as the land. This may be a small problem now, but in 20 years it will become a much bigger problem if it continues to contaminate our land and water supply. The savings we gain now will be short lived. The cost to cleanup the environment later will most likely be far beyond what we can save today. Any moron can figure that out, don’t you think!

Toka, you go ahead and stock up on the high tech CFL’s, I’ll just keep my incandescent bulbs until they come out with something safer or until the Green Police say I can’t use them anymore.


Now go learn something and Google these titles so you understand the hazards of CFL’s:


LA Times:
Unrecycled New Light Bulbs Release Mercury into the Environment

Scientific American:
Are Compact Fluorescent Lightbulbs Dangerous?

World Net Daily:Consumers in Dark Over Risks of New Light Bulbs


– John