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August 19, 2003somebody should be dragged off and shotWhen a grassroots campaign to send air conditioners to our soldiers in Iraq is derailed by some asswit bureaucrat, his head needs to roll. Frankie Mayo has a mission — to cool the air for as many U.S. soldiers in Iraq as she can by sending them as many as air conditioners as she can lay her hands on. What started with a single air conditioner sent to her son at the end of June has grown into Operation Air Conditioner, with tons of units being sent to the troops. It is more than just providing them a touch of comfort or a taste of home, it is about helping them avoid heatstroke and providing them comfortable sleeping conditions. But, Mrs. Mayo had 302 new air conditioners waiting to go on Friday, when the U.S. Postal Service pulled the plug. The US Post Office should be shipping those air conditioners for FREE, not charging for it. And they damned surely shouldn't be shutting down the operation. But they did. Local and regional postal representatives ducked our inquiries yesterday. But at 4:50 Friday afternoon, Mrs. Mayo was told by a bureaucrat in an air-conditioned office at Delaware's Wilmington Distribution Center that it would no longer ship the air conditioners because they contain freon, which is listed as a class 2 compressed gas. See what nutball environmentalism brings us? Air conditioners contain FREON!!! Oh, my Bejus!!! We can't ship THAT! Much better that American troops sweat and die in horrible conditions than we ship a CHEMICAL that destroys the ozone layer and makes Al Gore write idiotic books about blind sheep. Hell, we can recruit more soldiers if they sweat to death. But we've got only ONE Gaia, who is Mother to us all, and SHE is who we need to worry about. What absolute, unmitigated bullshit. Postmaster General John Potter ought to be alerted to this by phone (202/268-2020), fax (202/268-5211) or e-mail (www.usps.com/common/contact_us/ and click on consumer feedback). Deluge that bastard with email, fax and phone calls. Tell him to fire a few people. I've never seen a goddam bureaucrat in my life who was worth one American soldier. I've always believed that bureaucrats are nothing more than swollen ticks on a fat dog's belly and this crap proves my theory. We should not let this assholery stand unchallenged. The truth is, I'm more in tune with kevin McGeehee. Let's start a pitchfork and torch business. We might have lots of customers when this story makes its rounds. Sometimes, free people really need to storm the castle and kill the monster.
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Time to bring back the buckets of tar and the bags of feathers, methinks, along with the rough poles for the rides!! And just how does that idiot postal person know they are filled with Freon...current AC's are NOT filled with it. Unless those AC's are all over 6 years old, they don't have Freon. I think the issue isn't that it is Freon, but that it is a compressed gas. We've gotten entirely insane about this kind of crap. I heard not too long ago about the TSA siezing paintball CO2 bottles from luggage. They didn't have any gas in them, but they could hold compressed gas, so they siezed some of them. They let others through. Posted by: Phelps on August 19, 2003 04:58 PMThe services themselves are shipping A/C's by the dozens; of course, they're exempt, but you would think that someone, somewhere, from DOD could manage to certify these shipments, or is that too simple?! Yes, MOMMABEAR, it is too simple. You're dealing with gov't remember? They don't use the KISS theory, they use the KISSMYASS theory. Posted by: Laura on August 19, 2003 05:16 PMBrit Hume of Special Report on Fox News just talked about the air conditioners on the "Grapevine" and how Mrs. Mayo had already shipped 425 a/cs, but was stopped from shipping the 300+. Some private sector mucky-muck said that it shouldn't be a problem because there wasn't that much Freon in the units. So, now maybe she will get a guardian angel to ship them out for free. Hopefully. Posted by: Laura on August 19, 2003 05:43 PMCompressed gases are generally a no-no in the mail, as bad things can happen with large amounts of it in aircraft with unpressurized cargo bays. That said, there's a tiny amount in air conditioners, and it hasn't been freon in some time. I just sent my electronic bitch slap in. Posted by: Mr. Lion on August 19, 2003 08:24 PMI wonder if UPS or Airborne or one of the other private delivery services could be persuaded to step in and take over? Talk about major publicity and pr points. Posted by: shell on August 19, 2003 08:30 PMI work in Wal-Mart Claims in Texas, and handle quite a few A/C units during the summer. Air conditioners DO NOT come up on any of my Haz Mat Material Safety Data or Special Instructions, with the exception of keeping the compressors level (so they don't leak). Then again, I use a carrier, rather than USPS or UPS. Believe me, Wal-Mart has a rule about EVERYTHING, so I kind of wonder about this . . . sounds like a Pinhead Exception. Posted by: Ally on August 20, 2003 07:30 AMMy Navy Seal buddy just got back from Iraq. He said the most frustrating thing about the packages he got was that some of them were from Boy Scout and Girl Scout Troops. They put microwave popcorn in their packages. My friend threw it away due to the lack of appliances in his tent. In the middle of a hot desert in his humble temporary abode, there was no electricity. Posted by: Heather on August 20, 2003 10:08 AMMan, the leaders of those Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops must have been waaay out to lunch. Why would one assume that soldiers in the field would have access to electric cooking appliances?! Posted by: dragonfly jenny on August 20, 2003 02:14 PMHeather: Pah, some solider he was! A real Military Man woulda cooked the popcorn in a mess kit over a fire, the old fashioned way! (I'm mostly serious, too. Just pour the corn and oil into the pan (ideally, get one of the tall old euro-style mess kits, but I'm sure something can be rigged up in its absence), and shake it rapidly ala Jiffy Pop, over heat (such as trioxane fuel bars)... Pop, pop, popcorn! Posted by: Sigivald on August 20, 2003 03:23 PMI was just trying to make a point that AC isn't going to do any good without somewhere to plug it in. Even in buildings in Iraq, electricity is spotty at best. The intentions are good, but it's a lot of money spent for something that might not work when it gets there. I really don't know if that's still the case, but it was 2 months ago. My friend did seem to appreciate the care packages from his friends that contained porn, whiskey and cigarettes. Maybe just spend a few thousand dollars on Penthouse, Jack Daniels and Marlboros instead. Posted by: Heather on August 20, 2003 03:44 PMTo clarify the situation, at least in Baghdad. We have limited power- that is we make our own in most cases. Generators are available in a lot of places and many ingenious GIs have figured out how to tie into the unreliable Iraqi power grid. AC is a luxury if you call being able to sleep more than a couple hours a day a luxury. We have had soldiers buy their own air conditioners in order to get by in the heat. Yes I said buy their own- not bought by the Army or donated or "liberated." Bought for the outrageous sum of $450 a piece. Personally I prefer the heat, it makes me delerious and helps to pass the days... Posted by: madman on August 20, 2003 04:16 PMGod bless you, Madman. And thanks. Posted by: Larry on August 21, 2003 05:55 AMPost a comment
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