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Tale of two houses

Posted by netfotoj on Monday, July 07, 2008 6:26:26 PM


House#1
A 20 room mansion (not including 8 bathrooms) heated by natural gas. Add on a pool (and a pool house) and a separate guest house, all heated by gas. In one month this residence consumes more energy than the average American household does in a year. The average bill for electricity and natural gas runs over $2,400 per month. In natural gas alone, this property consumes more than 20 times the national average for an American home. This house is not situated in a Northern or Midwestern "snow belt" area. It's in the South.


House#2
Designed by an architecture professor at a leading national university. This house incorporates every "green" feature current home construction can provide. The house is 4,000 square feet (4 bedrooms) and is nestled on a high prairie in the American southwest. A central closet in the house holds geothermal heat-pumps drawing ground water through pipes sunk 300 feet into the ground.

The water (usually 67 degrees F) heats the house in the winter and cools it in the summer. The system uses no fossil fuels such as oil or natural gas and it consumes one-quarter electricity required for a conventional heating/cooling system. Rainwater from the roof is collected and funneled int o a 25 ,000 gallon underground cistern. Wastewater from showers, sinks and toilets goes into underground purifying tanks and then into the cistern. The collected water then irrigates the land surrounding the house. Surrounding flowers and shrubs native to the area enable the property to blend into the surrounding rural landscape.

HOUSE #1 is outside of Nashville, Tennessee; it is the abode of the "environmentalist" Al Gore.

HOUSE #2 is on a ranch near Crawford, Texas; it is the residence the of the President of the United States, George W. Bush.

An "inconvenient truth."

You can verify it at :http://www.snopes.com/politics/bush/house.asp


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Weird local politics

Posted by netfotoj on Monday, July 07, 2008 6:13:00 PM
Satanic cult of Durham Democrats?

Yikes! This is getting too close to home. Guess this proves again that truth is way stranger than fiction. Way, way stranger.

Of course, this is Durham, home of Duke U., where you're guilty until proven innocent if the Democrat DA needs some votes.

Reckon these "satanic Democrats" are getting "Nifonged"? Anything's possible in Durham, NC.
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Tax the rich!?

Posted by netfotoj on Monday, July 07, 2008 6:05:29 PM

Hallelujah! I’m rich! Whoopee! You know how Obama has been saying when he’s President, he’ll raise taxes only on the rich? Guess what? That’s me! And he’s not even waiting until he’s President. He’s already voted to raise my income taxes twice way back "when I was a United States senator," said Obama. (Gee. I need to stay up on news better. I thought he still was a Senator.)

“This year, Barack Obama returned to the United States Senate twice to vote in favor of a budget resolution which raises income tax rates by three percentage points for the 25, 28 and 33 percent tax brackets. This would mean a tax increase for those earning as little as $32,000.” (This apparently happened way back "when I was a United States senator," said Obama.)

Gee again. Now that I’m rich, for some reason I don’t feel like celebrating.

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