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Leave The Lights On Tonite-Celebrate HUMAN ACHIEVEMENT HOUR (HAH!)
Michelle Malkin ^ | 3-24-09 | Michelle Malkin/ CEI

Posted on 03/28/2009 10:46:50 AM PDT by tcrlaf

This weekend, enviro-zealots will celebrate “Earth Hour” by turning off their lights. They’ve pulled this stunt for a few years now. But this time, they’ve added a new twist: “This year, Earth Hour has been transformed into the world’s first global election, between Earth and global warming. For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote – Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming.”

How about voting for human achievement? Michelle Minton at the Competitive Enterprise Institute has a good proposal:

This week CEI announced the creation of Human Achievement Hour (HAH) to be celebrated at 8:30pm on March 28th 2009 (the same time and date of Earth Hour).

Our press release described ways people might celebrate the achievements of humanity such as eating diner, seeing a film, driving around, keeping the heat on in your home—all things that Earth Hour celebrators, presumably, should be refraining from. In the cheekiest manner, we claimed that anyone not foregoing the use of electricity in that hour is, by default, celebrating the achievements of human beings. Needless to say, the enviros in the blogosphere didn’t take to kindly to our announcement.

Matthew Wheeland, an environmental journalist called the holiday “mind-blowingly strange” and pondered if Earth hour folks are including in their numbers people in countries that don’t have enough electricity to make the choice to turn out their lights. Of course, they don’t have the choice to acquire electricity whereas anyone can choose to stop using human technology if they wish…

…Green and private conservation are fine. We have no problem with an individual (or group) that wants to sit naked in the dark without heat, clothing, or light. Additionally, we’d have no problem with the group holding a pro-green technology rally. That’s their choice. But when this group stages a “global election” with the express purpose of influencing “government policies to take action against global warming,” we have every right as individuals to express our vote for the opposite

If our Human Achievement Hour is at all a dig against Earth Hour, it is so only by the fact that we are pointing out what Earth Hour truly is about: it isn’t pro-earth, it is anti-man and anti-innovation. So, on March 28th I plan to continue “voting” for humanity by enjoying the fruits of man’s mind.


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: dopeydems; earthhour; ecostupidity; electricity; environazi; malkin
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UTILITY POWER TO THE PEOPLE!

Show your liberal friends and neighbors that you appreciate the efforts of GENERATIONS of mankind working to bring us out of the darkness!!!

(While THEY sit in the dark...) (I see SYMBOLISM in that...)

1 posted on 03/28/2009 10:46:51 AM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: tcrlaf

An rememeber, that’s 8:30 pm local time, kind of a rolling “Lights ON!” to counter the rolling “shiver and die in the dark” idiots.


2 posted on 03/28/2009 10:49:08 AM PDT by dynachrome (Barack Hussein Obama yunikku khinaaziir)
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To: tcrlaf

these idiotic libs have it all wrong. Instead of turning off their lights for an hour to save the planet, they’d do a lot more to save the planet of CO2 emissions if they just stopped breathing for that hour!


3 posted on 03/28/2009 10:49:15 AM PDT by MAD-AS-HELL (Hope and Change. Rhetoric embraced by the Insane - Obama, The Chump in Charge)
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To: tcrlaf
I have my living room lights on 24/7 just to annoy the heck out of liberals - all year around!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

4 posted on 03/28/2009 10:49:18 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: tcrlaf
One small 60 watt bulb for man, one giant megawatt for all mankind.

Thanks Michelle, for another brilliantly bright idea!

5 posted on 03/28/2009 10:49:23 AM PDT by vox_freedom ("If God be for us, who is against us?" -- Romans 8:31)
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To: tcrlaf

Jimmy Carter invented this hysteria in the 70’s having everybody living in the dark (well that plus turning the lights out)and we’re still here


6 posted on 03/28/2009 10:51:23 AM PDT by 1000 silverlings (Everything that deceives also enchants: Plato)
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To: tcrlaf

We’ll have all 4 of our tvs going, plus a majority of lights in the house, plus two computers and a laptop, plus a vaporizer and humidifier, plus...

I’d be curious to see one of those “Earth at Night From Space” pics where you can see all the ‘light pollution’. My house is gonna be really bright in protest! :-)


7 posted on 03/28/2009 10:52:13 AM PDT by pillut48 (CJ in TX --"God help us all, and God help America!!" --my new mantra for the next 4 years)
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To: tcrlaf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzCAnp-WpZc


8 posted on 03/28/2009 10:52:52 AM PDT by Semper Mark (Paranoia is just a heightened state of awareness.)
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To: tcrlaf

DAG! I packed up all my Christmas lights on January 7!


9 posted on 03/28/2009 10:53:25 AM PDT by lightman (Adjutorium nostrum (+) in nomine Domini.)
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To: windcliff

We’ve been planning on doing this all week!


10 posted on 03/28/2009 10:53:47 AM PDT by stylecouncilor (The black man is keeping me down!)
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To: pillut48

I have a barn light for the horse, a lit up pathway to the MIL’s house behind mine, and lights over the garage to keep the raccoons back in the woods. That and someone is always up half the night watching tv or on the computer. We’re the only entertainment Bigfoot has back here in the mountains and he’s more important than any enviro whacko and how can he look in the windows if the lights are off


11 posted on 03/28/2009 10:55:53 AM PDT by 1000 silverlings (Everything that deceives also enchants: Plato)
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To: dynachrome

Shiver and DIE IN THE DARK HOUR!

I like that!!!


12 posted on 03/28/2009 10:55:57 AM PDT by tcrlaf ("Hope" is the most Evil of all Evils"-Neitzsche)
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To: tcrlaf

Well heck....I was going to turn mine off at bedtime as usual....no sense in wasting energy. I didn’t know I would be voting though so I guess I’ll vote for global warming.


13 posted on 03/28/2009 10:56:51 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: tcrlaf
The libs can turn off their lights and draw stick figures on the walls by the flame from a candle. I'm leaving my lights on to celebrate the progress man has made over the years.

The idea, mentioned above, for them to stop breathing for an hour to reduce their CO2 output is excellent.

14 posted on 03/28/2009 10:57:33 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Mom always said, "Never just anyone whose name can't be spelled backwards." Like Soros.)
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To: tcrlaf

I will turn on every light and heater in the house. I shall run outside and start my car engine and turn on the headlights. I may use my fireplace for the first time and burn the most smoke producing objects I can find. Rent a cannister of CO2 and open the valve. The possibilities are endless.


15 posted on 03/28/2009 10:57:40 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: tcrlaf

Heck, I do this every day at every hotel room I stay in (over 200 a year), but admittedly it is self serving, since I’m in the business of starting up new power plants!


16 posted on 03/28/2009 10:58:56 AM PDT by FMBass ("Now that I'm sober I watch a lot of news"- Garofalo from Coulter's "Treason")
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To: tcrlaf

This reminds me of a county song that went something like this:

Every light in the house is on
The backyard’s bright as the crack of dawn
Thr front walk looks like runway lights
It’s kinda like noon in the dead of night

(Trace Adkins)

If I think of it tonight, I’m going to turn on everyone of my outdoor lights.


17 posted on 03/28/2009 10:59:14 AM PDT by ScubieNuc
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To: tcrlaf

Is that 8:30 EST?


18 posted on 03/28/2009 11:00:24 AM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: tcrlaf

Make sure you open your blinds/curtains to make sure the lights are highly visible.

I’m cranking everything on for the entire hour.


19 posted on 03/28/2009 11:00:52 AM PDT by arealconservativeforachange (Tell JD Hayworth to run for McCain's seat! http://www.jdhayworth.com/contact.php)
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To: pillut48

All I have to do to counter every one of the neighbors for miles around who think they are doing something by turning out their lights, is crank my electric furnace up for an hour. That baby sucks up a lot of juice to put out that 150,000 BTU an hour.


20 posted on 03/28/2009 11:01:03 AM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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