Celebrate Human Achievement Hour,
March 28, 2009 !
Posted on 03/29/2009 2:47:19 AM PDT by Scanian
A Web site called EarthHour.org, apparently unconcerned about the carbon footprint of majuscules, urges global warmists to "VOTE EARTH BY SWITCHING OFF YOUR LIGHTS FOR ONE HOUR" starting at 8:30 p.m. tomorrow. We were tempted to make fun of this, as many people in the site's comment section have done, but then we remembered what President Obama said about cynics who fail to understand that the ground has shifted beneath them. So instead of being consumed by the stale political argument that this protest is silly, we're going to do something positive: organize a counterprotest.
Reader, if you are against global-warming hysteria, high taxes, socialized medicine and a weak foreign policy, Sunday is your day. Show how you feel about the issues by turning on your lights in the evening and leaving them on until you go to bed. If you go out for a drive after dark, make sure you turn your headlights on too.
Granted, the EarthHour people have a head start on us. They started planning this months ago, whereas we're giving you all of 48 hours notice. Yet we think the outlook is bright for this effort. Tell your friends, tell them to tell their friends, and so on, and we'll bet millions of people across the country will turn their lights on Sunday night.
If no one will listen to the silent majority, let's at least make sure they see us.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
THIS SATURDAY 28 MARCH AT 8.30PM
We saw the commercial for it on TV. My husband said, “Let’s turn every light in the house on at 8pm!”
Here’s my comment from another thread:
It is pretty simple.
The left wants you to live in the dark.
The true progressives want to fill the world with more light.
Oh, well....I don’t think it had much of an effect, do you?
So, did they all just sit there in the dark with no tv? I guess they were practicing for the future.
Nope. I turned every light on in my house and had all electrical circuits sucking that juice. The WWF is just up the road from me and if they did any moving around here on Saturday night, they say all my lights.
That’s what we did! At 8:30pm last night every light we could find was turned ON!!
It is actually a pretty good idea. I think the next time Barry gives a speech on national TV, everyone should agree to turn out their lights and not watch Obama.
...And this is how WE (9-12ers) celebrate EarthHour:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTbpuQzMnxA&NR=1
I turned everything on from 8 until 10 last night. I have three neighbors with school age children. All of their lights were turned out promptly at 8:30. Brainwashed by leftie teachers!
Satire.
Reader, if you are against global-warming hysteria, high taxes, socialized medicine and a weak foreign policy, Sunday is your day. Show how you feel about the issues by turning on your lights in the evening and leaving them on until you go to bed. If you go out for a drive after dark, make sure you turn your headlights on too.
Even the people who turned out their lights on Saturday will be doing this, since it is normal behavior, proving that even the symbolism is useless.
I lit the house up last night and noticed a few neighbors who did the same. ;-)))))
Let’s all get out our horses and buggy whips and park our cars for the next week. We’ll show those Energy Bigwigs.
I turned on all lights then went outside to see if anyone was in black-out mode. My neighbor across the street (who is conservative) had all of his lights on including the porch light (which is usually off). The handful of libs on my block had most of their lights off. I just wish that I still owned a spot light. It would have been fun to light up the “dark” houses with it.
It had an immediate effect on global warming ... three inches of fresh snow already this morning in the Chicago burbs.
“VOTE EARTH BY SWITCHING OFF YOUR LIGHTS FOR ONE HOUR”
This is stupid. The electric companies will continue to produce electricity which will be lost in the grid unless it is used. So tell me how much is going to be saved.
In the end the producers lose income and will be forced to raise rates to compensates.
BTTT
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