In The dark In Loudoun - Another Wacko Cause: Light Pollution

etherzone.com ^ | July 26, 2002 | Tom DeWeese

[Tailgunner Joe]

Earlier this month, Supervisor Bill Bogard (Sugarland Run, VA) introduced a draft proposal that would curb light use in Loudoun. Call Supervisor Bill Bogard and tell him TO STOP THE IDIOCY! He and his fellow "supervisors" have NO RIGHT to tell a property owner when, where, and how they can light their homes! Loudon County Board of Supervisors: (703) 777-0204. Also, you may email Bill Bogard at bogardb@erols.com. Let him have it!

[DrDavid]

Astonomers have complained about light pollution for years because it interferes with telescopes. Are there any big telescopes in Louden?

The other problem with turning off the lights is that it provides cover for real criminals to commit their crimes. Perhaps that is why liberals want to turn off the lights!

[Skwidd]

Light pollution? WHAT?!?!?

"Get the hell off my porch before I kick your a**, you stinking hippy." =)

[Gaston]

Already posted here... http://freerepublic.com/focus/news/715352/posts

[per loin]

Right. Much better for our kids to grow up with a night full of Taco Bell signs, than for their souls to see the majesty of the stars.

[Zon]

Read almost like an Onion article. The greatest pollution comes from the mouths and pens of environmentalists spewing lies and propaganda.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Previously posted.
Excellent discussion here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/718280/posts?page=21#21
DeWeese is nuts.

[Chemist_Geek]

Let us begin with the understanding that there is no such thing as "light pollution",

Er, there is such a thing. Visit New York City's Central Park at 2 or 3 AM on a clear night, and look at the skies. Then go to the country and view the skies again.

Now, regulating the number or power of outdoor lights in private homes is a bit silly; just force the brightly-lit to pay their understandibly higher electric bills.

I won't go into the aesthetics, but it seems like the author of this piece would be perfectly happy if every city, town, village, and hamlet were to look like the Las Vegas Strip at night. Yuck.

[Chemist_Geek]

Right. Much better for our kids to grow up with a night full of Taco Bell signs, than for their souls to see the majesty of the stars.

Hear, hear!

[Silly]

ANAGRAM
Light pollution =
Lo, thin pol. guilt

(It was the best I could do in a short time...)

Just being

[NJJ]

In truth, the only people who really are concerned about too much light at night are amateur astronomers . . .

Sorry Joe, I'm one of those amateur astronomers and a conservative. There is light polution, it's the light that is wasted and paid for by all of us. It sounds like you'r trying to make a case for littering.

[Free the USA]

Index Bump

[per loin]

O Hilltop Guilt?

[Sacajaweau]

We've had this light pollution thing in our area for some time.

A neighbor complains about the light on your back porch since it annoys them when they are watching TV.

Did anyone ever think of telling the neighbor to close their drapes??

Of course not!!

Stupid Planning Board Powers and Town Ordinances which are supposed to be "health, safety and welfare powers".

Since having a night light on is a safety issue, why does the complaining neighbor win??

Sac

[discostu]

How's about:
PLIGHT I NULL TOO

wordsmith.org, cool place. Still combing through the list for a good one.

[Tailgunner Joe]

I always try to tell people that the enviro-nazis won't be happy until all of us are sitting in the dark, but they just don't believe me.

Supervisor Eugene Delgaudio (Sterling, VA) has taken the lead against this nazi-style proposal. "With this act, women are not safe and we might as well call it the ‘Kidnappers Enhancement Act,’" says Delgaudio.

[BigBobber]

What's wrong with slapping a piece of metal around a light so it is all deflected down (below a "horizontal plane")??

This is not going to help the "billions of moths" and the sea turtles. You see, once you buy into the liberal's premise they will never be satisfied with common sense solutions.

As they have with every other kind of "pollution" they will keep ratcheting up the standards until no one can comply. And then they have accomplished their real purpose, which not protection of the environment, but total contol of the unwashed masses.

[per loin]

Women who want to feel safe at night should carry guns. Should know how to use them, too.