What Are YOUR Plans for Earth Hour?
Tonight, from 8:30 to 9:30, as a symbolic gesture to stress the necessity of environmental responsibility, we are being asked to turn off all non-essential lights.
Organizers say they hope this year’s event will send a message to world leaders meeting Copenhagen in December for a major summit on climate change.
“We are asking one billion people to take part in what is essentially the first global vote for action on climate change by turning off their lights for one hour and casting a vote for earth,” said executive director Andy Ridley.
The Beast Who Slumbers strove mightily in vain to come up with a video of the great Little Walter doing “Boom, Boom, Out Goes the Light”. However, El Somnambulo suspects that he might just draw some inspiration from Little Walter’s tune. W/O being too specific, allow ‘bulo to share two words with you: ‘massage oils’.
Sooooo, what do YOU have planned for tonight? And, is it possible that, 9 months from now, the environment might just realize the down side of Earth Hour?
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burn styrofoam, leave my fridge open, and feed beans to my pet cow.
Watching the NCAA games by candlelight.
turn on every single light and appliance in the whole dam house.
turning off every single light and appliance in the whole dam house.
Maybe throwing the master switch at the breaker board. But probably not since I don’t want to have to go around and reset all the clocks.
Turn off the reading lamp on the airplane; I’d turn off more, but the plane is not supposed to hit the runway until 9:45
Wise move, Steve. 🙂
We are out to dinner with friends, but I’ll be sure to make my kids turn off the XBox and TV. Anyone like to volunteer to monitor that situation for me?
I plan on making the electric meter spin like a helicopter blade! 🙂
Earth hour? What happened to Earth Day? 😉
David Letterman, 3/27/09
turned all lights on plus all heaters to counter the terrible cooling effect of too many lights out.
bob
Our conservatives are so funny.
El Somnambulo wrote:
I’d call that result, come late December, the upside of Earth Hour — which does rhyme with Birth Hour! 🙂
David Letterman asked:
As it happens, our friends on the left selected my birthday to be Earth Day, so many years ago. So, rather than y’all celebrating Earth Day this year, you should celebrate My Birthday, number 56 to be exact. Presents of cash are always in good taste.
To all you global warming nuts out there in OSAMA OBAMA land I am going to turn every light on in my house, go start both of my SUV’s and burn as much energy as I can. Only 3 years until we can get rid of OBAMA the socialist.
GO GOP
I’m going dark now. Don’t worry I’m on battery power right now.
Looks like somebody’s lightbulbs went dark years ago.
Totally dark in my apartment now, with only my laptop to see by. I’m working all weekend (from home), so I can’t shut that down.
Sometimes I think that Republican Global Warming denial isn’t simply a War On Science, it’s a War On Coastlines.
yeah, that’s going into my Twitter feed. 😉
jesus X, who was that?
and i’m trying to convince my father that the T.V counts too. oh well, i got the water heater and everything else. on the laptop now, stealing someone’s wireless
oops, didn’t scroll up.
brian…. never mind. it’s like arguing with a bowl of hummus
“Looks like somebody’s lightbulbs went dark years ago……..
” Just like I felt X, thanks for the laugh
This whole thing is a meaningless gesture. It allows people to act for a brief moment like they really care. But then they go back to their same old ways of energy use and no recycling and generall wasteful manners. Basically it’s a bandaid they put over their guilt so they can wave around to say “See, I did something” before heading off to protest that new wind farm that will ruin their view, or the tax increase to support mass transit, or laws requiring them to recycle.
So in celebration of the hyprocrisy of this event, I have turned on all my lights, since 6:30, including multiple TV’s now blaring in the background while I type this. What a pile of crap.
At least I have a brain unlike liberals who only think with their emotions. GOD controls the weather not man. Global Warming is a scam meant to redistribute wealth.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2009/03/20093281910101718.html
yup, it is al jazeera.
and yes Barbie’s gay boyfriend. it IS gesture. but it is one to raise awareness for a bigger meaning…. like tea parties, or circle jerks
I guess projection is the most natural form of defense against one’s shortcomings.
Science = thinking w/emotions
Believing God controls the weather = totally logical
Brian, please continue commenting here. Your words are a cavalcade of the most delectable ignorance. I relish the opportunity to mock you further.
Well, Ken, I did ya one better. My lights are still out.
I’M IN UR PLANET, OFFSETTING UR CARBONS
Turn on every light in the house.
xstryker,
The only shortcomings I have is thinking that Liberals will eventually get it. Like a comedian said once,”You can’t fix stupid”. I will just sit here and keep burning as much energy as i can.
one of the widest differences of opinion (and there are definitely more than one…two…three…) I have with my side of the spectrum is right here (topics related to this post). Very frustrating indeed. I relate it to breaking a toddler of the binky (pacifier) habit. They swear nothing will be as certain or as safe as the binky, but once you get past the trauma of breaking addiction, it’s all good.
Obama thinks that Government is who gives me my rights. Maybe he should have asked his Teleprompter. God gives me rights not man. God was the foundation of this county and before you mock me why don’t you go read the Declaration of Independance and the Constitution. That is if any of you liberals can read.
“… ,”You can’t fix stupid”. I will just sit here and keep burning as much energy as i can.”
If that’s your fix for stupid, you might as well leave it broken.
The stupid in this thread, it burns! I’m going to turn on every light in the house, so there, take that! It’s your electric bill.
Declaration of Indenpendance? I’m not familiar with that document. I am acquainted with the Declaration of Independence, though.
Hi Brian,
Thanks for commenting. I had to run the comment through my wingnut to english translation program to appreciate it though.
Hello everyone I am an idiot and I’m about to bore you with some nonsense I heard on the radio.
I have nothing really, just a random bit of non-sequitor, but that is how God made me. That and a consuming love for goat ass.
POW! Nobody will ever recover from my genius typing. Now I have to go watch BSG in my parents basement.
Nothing different other than laughing at the lady who is going up to the Griffith Observatory to see a “dark LA!” I didn’t realize LIBS had such a big of sense of humor!
Good article about the 16 page document which will be handed out Monday in Bonn. (this is a prelim to the Dec. meeting)
The “Gorites” will be meeting and this document shows the GW is nothing more than the libs creating another way to “distribute wealth!”
They got you money
Gonna spend yo money
Gonna print more money!
Such fools!
I can’t wait for Brian’s electric bill. Boy, he really showed us. The stupidity is breathtaking.
And then there’s the genius that’s Cliff.
Brian – My god!
And RWR very pedestrian attempt at humor (like who here didn’t think some jackass would type that?!?) fails even worse when compared to the awesomeness of a. price’s channeling of pure conservative (oh, the irony!) self-imposed retardation!
Doesn’t this thread just prove that conservatives are really just anti-liberal more than anything else. They don’t really have a coherent ideology anymore.
Hey conservatives – I’m anti-jumping off a bridge. Go for it!
lol!
I think, after the failure of “Earth Day” (littering, etc), the libs decided to scale back to an hour. Of course, this goofy idea had predictable results. Note that every picture of every major city showed that most did not participate. Oooh, Big Ben went dark – but note that the rest of the city did not. Dumb…
LOL, Steve (Newton), shutting off airplane lights won’t save anything. The generators are powered off the engines’ spinning and horsepower. It might have saved three molecules of jet fuel.
Enjoy your temper tantrum. I know how much God loves people who are wasteful and spiteful.
Oh? Did God write those? Yeah, 1776 years after the birth of His Son, God gave up on the whole “love thy neighbor” thing and decided to found His own country, leaving the rest of the world to rot. God specifically wanted to preserve slavery for almost a century, so He made sure to have slavery recognized as legal in the Constitution. He waited nearly a century and a half before allowing women the right to vote.
PS: God may have given you rights, but He didn’t give you an ounce of brains.
Yeah, OK, the secret’s out. I can’t read! Isn’t that such a tragedy? Oh, if only I had learned how to read!
If they all participated, then awareness would be 100% and such an event would be wholly unnecessary. You may also have noticed during breast cancer awareness week (or whatever it is), that not everyone wears a little pink ribbon. The point is reminding people not to waste so much goddamn energy.
If we lived in a truly just world, the people who wasted the most energy would have to live next to the coal plants. Sadly, we live in a world where people talk about God and then practice “Do unto others before they do unto you” and “whosoever dies with the most toys, wins”. When I try to save energy, recycle, and reduce the amount of non-biodegradable products I dispose, I am doing unto others as I would have them do unto me. You’d think religious conservatives would have heard of the Golden Rule.
As a great Rabbi once said: That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is commentary – go study it.
Well nothing now since this is first I’m hearing of it and it’s dark at 2 am. Please provide more notice next time.
I’m sorry…Liberalism is a mental disorder and I am not inflicted.
I was planning on filing a lawsuit against Al Gore for fraud but my carbon foot print was way too big for my alloted carbon credit card.
The unstable isotope wrote:
This is a big part of what I meant with my mockery. UI said not to worry, she’s using her battery-powered laptop — and, I assume, her regularly powered internet connection. 🙂
But the battery on her laptop will have to be recharged! Eventually she’ll have to plug in the laptop to run it and recharge the battery. Her electricity usage hasn’t been lowered; it’s just been delayed. Moreover, since these conversions are not 100% efficient — there’s always some loss involved — she is using more electricity by using the battery pack when she doesn’t need to, and then recharging it later.
UI also wrote:
No, what we are is anti-stupidity, though it is always arguable that liberalism is stupidity. 🙂
What we are doing here is mocking faux conservation.
Republicans are anti-stupidity, that’s why their public face is Michael Steele, Rush Limbaugh, Michele Bachmann and the “Republican Road to Recovery.”
They have nothing.
Hmm… symbolic gestures? Like sitting in church on Sundays?
“Declaration of Indenpendance? I’m not familiar with that document. I am acquainted with the Declaration of Independence, though.” brian (IF that is his real name)
UI for the kill… he hasn’t been back since.
RWR, Steve scum-bag-ski, not that even trying to explain something like conservation ..(interesting how conservation and conservative seem to mean the opposite of each other) to you wasteful “me first” “blow up the planet to spite the liberals” leeches, but the point is to get every one to think. Do you think God wants us to destroy the world? The Rapture isn’t happening any time soon, unless some religious nut jobs launch some nukes and Christian Fundamentalists get confused and start dancing and singing as their faces are melting off….. so aside from than likely outcome.. the point of “earth hour” is the same as a cancer walk. you arent going to cure cancer by going for a 5k but would you ass hats actually decry people who do it?
“you liberals are so dumb…. cancer wont vanish if you go for a stroll…… hey San Fran Nancy and Fake President Marx are trying to walk off breast cancer”
and for those of you who don’t believe in pollution…. please PLEASE prove it by taking your family, go into the garage, turn on the car, and roll down the windows… stay there for 5-6 hours or until you prove it is harmless.
pandora wrote:
That would be someone like Barack Obama, who did so for twenty years at a church, yet somehow never heard the sermons. 🙂
As for us, we go to worship. Perhaps that’s a distinction which escapes you.
Nope… There is no distinction, Dana. Symbolic gestures designed to raise awareness.
OK…I had a comment deleted from last night that was quite benign. It wasn’t moderation or anything, because it posted and I saw it later on. It didn’t accuse, out, or otherwise do anything. What the freak?
Smitty, I searched the moderated/spam comments and don’t see anything. I didn’t see the comment last night. Not sure what happened.
I thought about this again and I think I may have a clue. First, it was most definitely deleted. After I submitted, it was up and when I came back later, it was there. Yesterday, gone. It was deleted.
Second, while what I wrote would have in no way shed light on this person’s non-blogging life, I now realize that this person may have very well thought otherwise. Plus, I don’t know all the circumstances on that person’s end, so there is a possibility that a third party may have been able to put things together that I am totally unaware of.
Third, once I finish my morning coffee, I may be able to re-write this where it completely makes sense.
Yes Brian is my name, my parents gave it to me in 1975. Yes I do have a Brain that is why I didn’t vote for OBAMA. For the unfortunate soul that said Sitting in Church was symbolic. I go to church to worship God and his son Jesus who died for my sins and gave me the promise of eternal life. I never said that the Constitution was perfect because it was made by men. Men are not perfect only God is. Like I said Obama and the Government does not give me my rights. Only God Does. And another thing, the liberals beter enjoy their power because in 2010 conservatives will take back the house. Even people I know who voted for OSAMA, are saying “What Have We Done”.
SO, “Brian” do you think God likes it when you destroy the planet? if your behavior is to waste waste waste, what does that say about you? maybe you don’t appreciate all of God’s wonders, sure you can argue the world is ours to do with as we please, but that doesn’t sound very responsible. so go, you good Christian you, drive your H2 to church while leaving all the lights on at home. throw some anti freeze in the and watch the river turn a pretty shade of green, i’m sure that is what God wants.
and one question…. and to make it fair i have a TON of Rush and Hannity quotes and links refuting them… so if you use any of them you are a moron…….
here is my question. What rights has Obama taken away from you? you can answer can you?
twit
Name calling shows the ingnorance of a typical liberal. Yes God tells me to protect our planet but your nieve if you think that humans control the weather. Only God controls the weather and God will decide when the end of the earth has come, not man. Global Warming is junk science. If you would actually do some research you would discover that the earth is actually cooling. Ask the people in the Rockies and Dakotas if they beleive in Global Warming. Wake Up and stop spuing the liberal agenda. By the way, there will be Global Warming one day. Thats when The Earth is on fire when God destroys it by fire. Another thing, I am amazed everyday by Gods wonders and I pray everyday for idiots like you.
“Name calling shows the ingnorance of a typical liberal.”
“Another thing, I am amazed everyday by Gods wonders and I pray everyday for idiots like you.”
are you a typical liberal “brian?”
“To all you global warming nuts out there in OSAMA OBAMA land I am going to turn every light on in my house, go start both of my SUV’s and burn as much energy as I can.”
is THAT your idea of protecting the planet?
i love using wing nut’s words against them.
and burning fuel finances tyrannical governments like Saudi Arabia… non christian nations i may add. that that it matters to me, but i know all you “Jesus hates liberals’ people don’t like that sort of thing.
Here are some pictures of a couple of different cities during Earth Hour.
those cities are Godless and will be the first to burn in the rapture.