Earth Hour of Power Group On Facebook Counteracts Marxist Earth Hour

Facebook ^ | 3/27/2010 | Jack Wilson

[Jack Wilson]

If you appreciate the benefits of civilization: cars, houses, computers, modern healthcare, etc. celebrate with us by turning on your porch light March 27 2010 8:30 PM Local Time.

Young folks especially should appreciate what powers their cellphones and IPods and Facebook. Don't take it for granted! So tonight at 8:30, turn on your porch light!

[Jack Wilson]

Please join the Hour of Power group and leave your lights on tonight at 8:30.

[Jack Wilson]

The link:

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?v=info&gid=108658325827939

[Carley]

We will be turning on all the outdoor lights as precisely 8:30 pm.

[stumptalker]

Yep, I’ll fire up the old generator with all of my Christmas light strings and spots too!

[G Larry]

Lights On and Car idling in the driveway!

[jimpick]

I sorry I am not turning off my porch light to turn it back on again. To much work involved. Besides it’s been on for I don’t know how long, day and night. Since the new bulb went in any way something like 2 months.

[Plumres]

Last year I turned every light in the house on. I then walked around the neighborhood and enjoyed the view of my house. There was no one the had a dark home.

[Republic]

I am so slow this AM I still don’t get this turning on of the lights thing...at the top it says if you enjoy all the modern stuff (and it says modern health care...does that mean obamacare?) to turn on your lights. I HATE OBAMACARE.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore ! Force of Darkness “Earth Hour” Challenged by Power of Light “Human Achievement Hour”

CEI Announces 2nd Annual Celebration of Human Achievement

Washington, D.C., March 19, 2010—The Competitive Enterprise Institute, a leading free-market think tank, will celebrate the Second Annual “Human Achievement Hour” between 8:30pm and 9:30pm on Saturday, March 27, 2010. The one-hour celebration coincides with “Earth Hour,” an hour in which governments, individuals, and corporations will dim or shut off lights to symbolically renounce the environmental impacts of modern technology.

“Earth Hour’s creators suggest that human inventions and technology are a problem, but we see the ability to create and innovate as the ultimate resource,” says Human Achievement Hour founder and CEI Policy Analyst Michelle Minton. “Environmental challenges will not be solved by turning off our lights and symbolically hiding in the dark,” Minton added. “If anything, we should be looking to technology and innovation to help solve environmental problems.”

Just like last year, countless individuals, organizations, agencies and businesses will be celebrating Human Achievement Hour without even realizing it. Just by not shutting down their lights, operations and stores, they will be acknowledging that productive effort and the pursuit of happiness are a better alternative than sitting in the dark.

In addition to the observance of Human Achievement Hour, wherever people may find themselves around the world, CEI will be hosting a happy hour event outside of Washington, D.C.

Human Achievement Happy Hour
Saturday, March 27, 2010
7:30pm-10:00pm

Rira Irish Pub and Restaurant
2915 Wilson Boulevard
Arlington, Virginia
703-248-9888

  MORE RESOURCES: Watch the video “Celebrate Human Achievement Hour,” follow us on Twitter and join the Facebook group.

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CEI is a non-profit, non-partisan public policy group dedicated to the principles of free enterprise and limited government.  For more information about CEI, please visit our website at www.cei.org.

[AndyPH]

I live in Sweden and here they will turn off the lights but are planning to lit up thousands of candles...to celebrate Earth Hour, they will cause more damage than with the lights on.
For my part, I have set up my lighting clock to come on at 20h30...every light I can think off will be turned on....my car will be idling in the drive way, while I wash my wife´s car... ( the only day of the year I clean it...lol).

[Flintlock]

My nice generator will power my generator-tester. That’s a dozen 400-watt lamps. It lights up the neighborhood—IN DAYLIGHT!
Just imagine it after ‘dark’.

[marlon]

Funny I just moved into a house that has more lights then I have ever seen. The front porch has 6 lights, there a 4 spot lights on brick pedestals directly in front of the house that point at the house, there are 2 flood lights on both the north and south front ends of the house, 2 flood lights on the north side, 2 600 watt halogen lights on back of the house that shine on the back yard, 6 lights on each side of the driveway and a lamp post.

For the life of me I don't know why the builder put all of these lights on the property and I've never turned them on but when I read about this stupid earth hour I said to my wife the other day, hey at 8:30 Saturday night we need to put ever single one of these lights on so our neighbors know there's no Marxists living here.

I'm just afraid some airplanes may mistake my front yard for the landing strip!

[SouthTexas]

You should proceed with blowing them out, tell them you are combating global warming.

Lights will be on here.

[AndyPH]

“You should proceed with blowing them out, tell them you are combating global warming”

what a great idea....lol

[Jack Wilson]

IHateTheMedia has a clever page:

Earth Hour 2010. Think of it as your chance to party like a North Korean

http://www.ihatethemedia.com/earth-hour-2010/comment-page-1#comment-24480

[Carley]

Thanks for doing your part. It’s a comfort to know that people the world over are fed up with this attempt to undermine the economies EVERYWHERE.

In our local area the commercials for this nonsense are using little children. Blech

[wolf78]

Please join the Hour of Power group and leave your lights on tonight at 8:30.

No. I will not let my behavior be dictated by symbolic nonsense like Earth Hour and that goes for turning lights off as well as turning lights on. I reserve my right not to care and therefore will do exactly as I would do every day. If I need light, I will use it, if want to watch a DVD I will do so. But I will not turn on the christmas decorations. And btw. that's also the difference between libertarianism and populism (I intentionally don't use the word conservatism as conservatism has both populist as well as libertarian aspects). I just wanna be left in peace.

[LanaTurnerOverdrive]

celebrate with us by turning on your porch light March 27 2010 8:30 PM Local Time.

Why?

[Jack Wilson]

Perfectly acceptable, wolf78. I see it as casting a vote, but nobody says you have to vote.

http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/group.php?v=info&gid=108658325827939