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Earth Hour - HAH!
You may have heard something about tonight’s “Earth Hour” (this is not the weekend you want to visit Vegas), in which the World Wildlife Fund co-opted my team’s quarterback to promote a global power-down in order to draw attention to evil human consumption.
You may have heard something about tonight’s “Earth Hour” (this is not the weekend you want to visit Vegas), in which the World Wildlife Fund co-opted my team’s quarterback to promote a global power-down in order to draw attention to evil human consumption.
As for me, tonight our family will host a large group to celebrate my son’s birthday, so we will have even more lights on than usual — both inside and outside our humble abode. And on top of that, we will force many more vehicles out on the road at the very moment this special hour hits, as parents come to pick up their teenagers. So if my friends at the Competitive Enterprise Institute are handing out any prizes for Best Celebration of their Human Achievement Hour, I hope I am at least among the top nominees.
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Lullaby's, Legends and Lies| 3.27.10 @ 10:29AM
So if the Left is turning off all their lights tonight (to save the World from the made up Global Warming/Climate Change threat), then in protest of everything that they stand for, I'm going to turn on all my lights, and even my A/C (even though it's still kind of cold). Then I'm going to go out to my car (a big old Lincoln Town Car), and drive it around in circles in the parking lot for the hour (because I really don't have any plans about going out tonight, you see, nobody invited me to a Birthday Party tonight). I'm personally going to offset at least a dozen Liberal's "save the Earth" agenda tonight by doing this. I'm just trying to do my part in destroying the Left, my name is Lullaby's.
Paul McGrath| 3.27.10 @ 11:49AM
Every light in my house is going on tonight for the full hour including those lights I rarely use. Front porch, back porch, bedroom . . . everything is going on, full blast. God, we live in a country of scaredy-cat, weenie, wussie, crybaby, pansy twerps, and I for one say: enough!
Pete| 3.27.10 @ 12:27PM
What a joke these people are.
On the positive side, I hadn't heard a thing about this silly gesture this year, when I have in the past. So, either my withdrawal from mainstream media sources is working or there is (deservedly) much less hype for this useless ritual this year.
Franklin| 3.27.10 @ 1:08PM
When is this suposed to happen? Guess I'll have to leave my lights on all night to cover the hour that the greenie weenies want me to turn them off.
My question is this: what idiot DOESN'T turn off unnecessary lights in order to save money? Why do we need a whoo haa big deal?
Ok, I know - it's to bring awareness to those who live under a rock (where, by the way, they probably don't use any type of energy) or who haven't been brainwashed yet.
Marc Jeric| 3.27.10 @ 2:16PM
Environmentalism is a true cult of death. Our eco-nazis want to reduce the world population from 6.5 billion to the "sustainable" one billion. In accord with that cult of death, the Earth Day will shut off the lights all over the earth - how appropriate!
Gavin Snyder| 3.28.10 @ 4:00AM
Personally, I turned every single electrical appliance in my house on during "Earth" hour. To add insult to injury, I made sure that both of the vehicles in my garage were running idle.
louis vuitton | 4.26.10 @ 10:41PM
This illustrates the awkward position red- and purple-district Democrats find themselves in after a year of tough votes forced by the Obama administration and the congressional Democratic leadership. canada goose another ACORN revelation (presumably from the O'Keefe/Giles video duo) is coming tomorrow, and he characterized it as "devastating.