hahaha - I was at the U of R and never turned off any lights!

twatwaffle? Only an outrages girly-man lefty would call Kate such a name. That is hilarious. What is even more hilarious is how seriously these twits take this 'symbolic' useless gesture to create ... what is it? oh ya awareness. As if we haven't heard their bleating until now and felt their pain.

Kate you have burn many stomaches in the past 24 hour and made mine sore from the laughter.

Thanks for the entertainment. I must go a throw another log on the fire. Despite the alleged global warming we are all too 'aware' of, it's unusually cold here on Vancouver Island as it is pretty much everywhere on this alleged over-heated planet.

I think the heat is mostly from the hot heads on the Left who just can't seem to have things their way. And you know how angry that makes those children of Gaia.

Aw, isn't that sweet...Kate still thinks she made a difference.

Global National is reporting that power usage in Calgary also went up, and is attributing it to the Oilers-Flames match-up on HNIC. (I know I did my part watching the tilt on my friend's 7-foot projection screen.) Considering the Flames and Oilers fans in Regina and elsewhere in Sask, this could also have an affect on the numbers.

Who knows Johnny, but at least our Kate can count.

Unlike the author of chickensinsaskatoon, updates part 1,2,3,4,5,3?

Did we annoy her that much that she got lost after she ran out of fingers and thumb on one hand?

hehehehe!!

SDA is Right once again!

I never turned on light out at my place.

Correction,

I never turned off a light out at my place.

WTF- why the big hate on for people who want to turn the lights out? The thing that I find makes this site a joke is that concern for the environment, or for abused kids, or for sticking up for and having some compassion for the downtrodden or underpriveledged or anything else that doesnt fit your mold is confused with politics.

I know Kate I know that SDA is nothing more than a source of personal entertainment for her where she can use her gift of persuasion to create a personality cult with a following of a certain type of person.

I know quite a few people who visit this site because I've put them onto it. They all come here looking for a laugh from the absurd and outrageous posts.

Hey John West!

From Vancouver you can see VI, that Island in the Pacific. Looks even better in binoculars. Strangely it is mostly white, not from clouds or smoke, but from snow. It's nearly April, and VI is white with snow. Check out their best ski hill - a base of over 14 feet!

But as we know, global warming means colder colds, hotter hots, more average averages, sweeter sweets, and greener greens.

It also means more naive eco-freaks. And sillier Davidian Scare-zukis.

SDA DENIER ........ we need tee's .... and ballcaps ....

"I know quite a few people who visit this site because I've put them onto it. They all come here looking for a laugh from the absurd and outrageous posts."
Well thanks for doing that Gil, because I come here to laugh at such idiotic dribble such as yours and probably others who you have directed.
Carry on giving us a laugh Gil!

I got the "bastards" myself when I put a full load of laundry in the dryer, set the timer for 60 minutes and pushed the button at precisely 20:00 -- BWWWAHAHAHAAA!!!!

"a certain type of person"

Oh, I want that on a tee shirt! Yeah, I'm a certain type of person who likes to annoy a certain type of person with an impotent hall monitor personality.

Noel,

You have it right. We have snow and cold. Last year was overall a cooler than average year. I am putting as much carbon as I can into the atmosphere in the hopes of warming things up a bit here. The sun is not cooperating and for some strange reason I think it's sun that is running the show.

For the Leftie twits who are so outraged at our obstinacy regarding the TLC of Gaia. It is not that we want a polluted planet or dirty water, it is that we don't want you telling what to do with our lives. Simple as that. If you shut up we would be most grateful.

In due time, people smarter than you eco-freaks are, will develop some better energy sources for a profit. They will be entrepreneurial by nature and not part of your braying collective. An entire collective would have trouble agreeing on how to make a candle.

Most of the wonderful things we have today that make our lives livable and enjoyable were invented or developed by weird loners in their garages and basements. They were driven by their own natures (not collectivist that's for sure) and for wealth which often followed.

I don't expect many of you to understand this because you still have visions of us all dancing around a campfire in the woods followed by an eating of the granola ceremony, followed by screwing each other's wives and girlfriends.

Nothing more important than a caring orgasm eh all you democrats and all you "14 years old is old enough for sex with older men" Liberals?

One more thing. Much of Africa lives in huts and has campfires every night followed by the eating of insects and grass followed by giving each other AIDS. They are gradually deforesting their continent with the fires. They don't have much electricity or gas or oil. So the burn the forest.

If we don't have access to oil and gas and electricity, we will very quickly burn our forests as well. Would you prefer than .... Leftie eco freak kooks?

JW:

Once the forests are burned, there will be only one thing left to burn.

How, oh how, are they going to sing Kumbaya when they have to throw the guitar in the fire?

GIL @ 8:52 pm - "I know Kate I know that SDA is nothing more than a source of personal entertainment for her where she can use her gift of persuasion to create a personality cult with a following of a certain type of person."

No Gil - you have it all wrong - Kate's SDA has, and is attracting like minded people who are sick and tired of depending on accurate information from the leftist MSM in this country.

Day after day we witness the corrupt MSM, ( the enablers of more than a decade of corrupt Liberal administration malfeasance) fed by the leftists at Canadian Press, CBC et al. twist and nuance the news.
I would venture to say that at this point in time SDA is causing MSM distress as we begin to mock the likes of Suzuki and his ilk of AGW alarmists and their " the globe burning up" hysteria and ponzi carbon credit buying scheme.

Thank God for the internet.

And Don Cherry!

'WTF- why the big hate on for people who want to turn the lights out? The thing that I find makes this site a joke is that concern for the environment, or for abused kids, or for sticking up for and having some compassion for the downtrodden or underpriveledged or anything else that doesnt fit your mold is confused with politics.'

Actually, I think you're confused. I would like to bet that the folks at SDA if properly polled probably turn out the lights most night, and use as little electricity as possible so that they don't have to pay a large electric bill at the end of the month. That tends to be how conservative people think. However, if you set out a time of day and hour for no good reason and suggest that we all should cede our freedom to make a nothing point out of something, people that are of a conservative school of thought tend to want to protect their freedom to do as they choose to do. Let's not give up our freedom for some fanciful idea that all the little people can do without so the likes of Al Gore and David Suzuki can use more electricity all year round.

As for the sticking up for the downtrodden and sick kids or underprivileged, its been proven time and time again that conservative folks tend to give more to charity in time and money than liberal folks do, so you see we're already doing lots for those people. And sometimes you'll find that people that are 'underprivileged' have made their own bed to lie in, and if thats the case why should the rest of us pay for them.

I suggest you keep coming back to SDA Gil, you might learn something.

If you drove round this little northern Ontario town last night at around 8:30, you'd have seen many houses wreathed in internal darkness with the occupants not using so much as candles or flashlights - just dark.

This was not lost on the leftocrats with whom I had lunch; comments included warm feelings of solidarity in the communual obeisance of this earth hour idiotology.

Right.

How about considering that it was "Saturday night", perhaps coincidentally the night where you'd least expect folks to be home?

Let's consider the hockey tournament in town, which was packed. Or the curling bonspiel, which was probably packed. Or the downtown restaurants, which were lively indeed. There were still a few cars in the XC ski parking lot when earth hour started.

You want a real measure of earth-time market penetration? Try Sunday night at 9PM, where Monday is a work day and a school day.

Yes, you annoying leftoids, pillory us for not turning lights off for an hour, and don't consider that perhaps they weren't on for the previous 12 hours of daylight.

Jim

Gil,

This a clothing line that you may be interested in:

tinyurl.com/2kjmwx

PS: Use your own money if your buying.

Say Gil,

Suppose everyone who made the empty and useless gesture of turning their lights off for a hour, instead donated $50 to the "Light Up The World" Foundation?

http://www.lutw.org/home.htm

Or is that too "absurd and outrageous" for your progressive mind?

My understanding is that "Earth Hour" was organized by the WWF. If you go to the WWF website (Canadian), you will see what a great success Earth Hour was in Canada (we led the world, according to the website). You will also see that the purpose was not to save energy, but to send a message to politicians that they need to take action on climate change now.

It was political, in other words. The meaning of your participation is being leveraged by folk with a political agenda. And you thought you were going to reduce carbon emissions. Subterfuge.

And that is why I flip these charlatans the bird.

Why is it the lefto-enviro-econo-fascists now think anyone having common sense is a nazi? Is it catching?

CanuckInMI at 9:30 PM

well said!!!

when I moved to this place 7 years ago, my E bill was $178/mon as a lone occupant

last bill I paid, (now with 5 occupants) was $220, not bad seeing rates have doubled or more

but then that's the conservative way:-)))

Caught a bit of coverage on cbc. They said Earth Hour was a sucess and cited a drop in use of 9% in T.O. and 4% in Ottawa.That was it,no mention of other cities that went up,and then they said that the other cities were still calculating their usage. Typical cbc crap,spoonfeed the masses partial stories and opinions presented as facts.

CanuckinMI has said it pretty well.

I keep the heat on minimum, only turn a light in the room I happen to be in etc *all* the time - not just for some token hour that is forgotten the next day.

Speaking for myself (and perhaps some here feel the same), this "rebellion" against earth hour has nothing to do with conservation or what have you because as has been said most conservatives tend to conserve anyway. I just feel that my participating in the whole farce would give the impression that I think Gore and Suzuki and their ilk are correct in their protestations about AGW, legitimizing the BS they continue to spread.

Gil: "WTF- why the big hate on for people who want to turn the lights out? The thing that I find makes this site a joke is that concern for the environment, or for abused kids, or for sticking up for and having some compassion for the downtrodden or underpriveledged or anything else that doesnt fit your mold is confused with politics."

I was out last night but I too left the lights on. But then again, the seven lights left on were CF bulbs and only used maybe 100 or so watts. That's what the enviro-idiots don't get, technological advances make their hair shirt platform redundant.

Canadian Cynic sure has a filthy mouth. I won't be visiting his site again.

What is it about a lot of leftards, that they can't talk about someone with whom they disagree without filthy ad hominems? Their limited and nasty language simply reinforces my opinion that they can't think and have teeny, tiny brains.

A suggestion for next year's "save the earth" campaign (instead of 60 minutes of darkness). A large portion of transfer payments are made up from resource revenue from the exploitation of hydrocarbons in Alberta - perhaps the rest of Canada would agree to 60 days without transfer payments from Alberta. Put their money where their mouth is.

Ahhhh! Our Kate! That's sweet. Gag me with a freakin' spoon. Listen Kate, I think you can stop jerking off about this deal anytime now. No matter how much light you try and shed on it you will remain very much in the dark. Right here, yonder, in Canada's much-vaunted number one clearinghouse for negativity.

I feel very positive about expressing our right to individual self-determination and quite happy the promoters of control through the technique of collective guilt are spewing such venom.

John Daly, you've just hit another one in the bush.

When the need to control overarches the need for intelligent scientific debate, it is easy to spot the totalitarians among us.

The light has shone on your darkness.

You are the Haiti to our Dominican Republic, the voodoo to our island paradise, the dark side to light.

John Daly - "Gag me with a freakin' spoon"

You go, valley girl! Like totally, whatever. Like Kate, you know is like a negative, like conservative, whatever that is. And I`m like living in BC, like where all the liberals, like Hilary Clinton and Hilary Duff like to visit... I`m sure...

Pizza makes me fat! So does blogging. It`s like totally awesome!

All those that are here strictly for entertainment say aye

AYE

John Daly, Anon and the like just solidify ones image of most leftys, inherited wealth, living in mommy and daddys basement, angry beyond belief, following any fad served up by those 1600 dollar a month Ryerson reporters at the cbc and ctv, constant sphincter moments, you can tell by the look on their faces, ie: Don Martin, Catherin Ford, Hilldabeest, Jack U Layton, yes they are easy to pick out and spot. Their hybrid vehicles are registered to daddy, phone bill goes to daddy and their mates are usually picked for them.

Makes sense if you're stupid. Turn everything off, let it cool down and it takes twice as much to get everything operating at tempature again. Algorabge's monkeys are at it again.

Well said John Brown at March 30, 2008 10:47 PM, I think it's worth repeating:

"A suggestion for next year's "save the earth" campaign (instead of 60 minutes of darkness). A large portion of transfer payments are made up from resource revenue from the exploitation of hydrocarbons in Alberta - perhaps the rest of Canada would agree to 60 days without transfer payments from Alberta. Put their money where their mouth is."

Slacktivism :

"It is a pejorative term that describes taking painless "feel-good" measures in support of an issue or social cause that have little or no practical effect other than to make the person doing it feel satisfaction. A person that engages in such activity is called a slacktivist."

tinyurl.com/2hrt6e

My understanding is that "Earth Hour" was organized by the WWF. If you go to the WWF website (Canadian), you will see what a great success Earth Hour was in Canada (we led the world, according to the website). You will also see that the purpose was not to save energy, but to send a message to politicians that they need to take action on climate change now.
It was political, in other words.

Precisely.

Down here in the Swamps of Georgia, we practice conservation-- what "environmentalism" used to be before it got highjacked by a gaggle of smug, self-righteous busybodies who want to use the government to cudgel everyone else in to doing what they say.
( Not what they actually do. )

"The problem with slacktivism, the ultimate in easy-to-do, feel-good politics, is that its methods are indistinguishable from simply doing nothing."

tinyurl.com/2ryw6r

[quote]In due time, people smarter than you eco-freaks are, will develop some better energy sources for a profit. They will be entrepreneurial by nature and not part of your braying collective. An entire collective would have trouble agreeing on how to make a candle.[/quote]

John West,
The Big Corporate world will "feed" on the idiotic, so called "future" R&D, projects the Eco-freaks want funded by the taxpayer. The R&D work that "academic" scientists think they will get will be near zero. The Corporations have all kinds of solutions in the bag, and only need a paying customer. (Cures looking for a disease).

The danger, besides all the wasted money, is the accelerated project time lines that should be avoided when dealing with ”Energy”

Responsible Capitalism requires due diligence, but the eco freaks don’t know enough to keep their, and our, pockets from been picked.

That was kind of amusing. All those glowtards turning off the lights in name of Gaia. I wonder what they will have them do next? An hour is nothing. They are going to have to add more time to it, to make it a real repentence. I think they should command them to turn off their furnace for a night in Febuary, to add some punch to it. I figure if you are going to introduce a new money making religion to the mix, you better make the self flagellating wicked, if you expect a greater number of followers. Look what it has to compete against. Take islam for example, they got suicide bombers, beheadings, all that 'make you behave stuff,' that has been tried and true. How is Gaia going to compete against that, with nothing more than a turn your lights off for an hour a year?

Gil - let me help you out a little:

WTF- why the big hate on for people who want to turn the lights out?

Cause that is really, really dumb - a pointless, meaningless gesture designed only for a feel good factor! If people who turned their lights out are truly concerned by AGW, then sell all you damn cars, TV, electric appliances move to Victoria and become little tree nymphs.

...that concern for the environment
You mean show their hypocritical concern for the environment, see above!

or for abused kids

You mean like getting the age of consent lowered even further, to allow peddies to show their love to the children. Wake-up call, it isn't conservatives who do most of the child-beating out there, it people on socialist aid programs that do it. Why don't YOU focus on getting people off these programs and stop child abuse in its tracks!

or for sticking up for and having some compassion for the downtrodden or underpriveledged

Yah, cause we don't complain about that the commies are doing in China, or how Mugabe is behaving in Zimbabwe, or Chavez, or Kimmie (I'm so Ronely) Jong Illll.

Or are you talking about Canada's most downtrodden individual, aka Richard Warman. Seems like he is taking care of himself these days pretty fine

or anything else that doesnt fit your mold is confused with politics.

I don't know that this means, you'd have to explain and provide some examples here!

I often wonder at the choices some leftist twits make for names.

Take johnny ringo, for example. He was a the next best thing to a Terrorist in the West in the 1880s. He was a bully, a murderer, and a thief. But the thing that stands out most, is how well his thought processes have been running since that bullet went through his head.

We're still getting good examples of it here on Kate's blog, each and every time johnny ringo stops by.

Hmmm. I wonder if that make sukookie his Ike Clanton....?

The leftist bloggers sure work themselves up into a frenzy over SDA. Their foot-stomping overwrought emotionalism is something to behold. How dare we not get with the program? It's offensive enough for a complaint to the HRC.

Yikes - the left is really up in arms about this aren't they? All high and mighty and huffy that people would dare NOT participate in Earth Hour.

I found it funny how the first leftie blogger was all excited over how Sask power would PROVE that it had been a success, then the justification of colder temperatures when it wasn't.

And - I thought RT had quit blogging - Is this not about his 5th reincarnation? He is as indecisive as the hapless Dion.

The lefties, the gaia followers, have went right off the deep end about this. To work themselves into a lather because someone told them they didn't want to sit in the dark like a mushroom, because they didn't believe in that shit, is sending them over the edge.

I am having a hard time believing something as stupid as not participating in a gaia celebration, is enough to make them want to throw stones at us.

The lefties, the gaia followers, have went right off the deep end about this. To work themselves into a lather because someone told them they didn't want to sit in the dark like a mushroom, because they didn't believe in that shit, is sending them over the edge.

I am having a hard time believing something as stupid as not participating in a gaia celebration, is enough to make them want to throw stones at us.

Neighbourhood Watch. They come for you at night.
Let's play Knock, Knock. Who's there? Joel Ostroff, Bradford, Ont.
...-

LETTER TO THE EDITOR
An hour, a day, a lifetime

"Joel Ostroff, Bradford, Ont.

Most households on my quiet street observed the worldwide effort for at least part of the hour – most, that is, except for one neighbour. He stubbornly left on the porch light and seemingly every light in his house. He then packed his family into the car and drove away for the evening.

Was he afraid of a break-in or was he just sticking it to Mother Nature? At least my son and I talked about the stupid selfishness that has brought the world to the state she is in – a subject not just for Earth Hour but for a lifetime."
http://tinyurl.com/2uxehw (TO Red Star)
...-

BORIS PASTERNAK
(1890-1960)

"They published their articles, compositions, symphonies and poems dreading that even a hint of disloyalty to the Revolution in their work might bring about the feared knock at the door in the middle of the night heralding arrest or worse."
http://www.rjgeib.com/heroes/pasternak/paster.html

Ewwwwwww, that gaia religious cult is taking hold faster than I thought. Letters to the editor, squealing on your neighbours about leaving lights on. If they start calling crime stoppers to report their lighted neighbours, I think it is time for us all to go underground.

It is not just that these idiots don't realise the significance of "squealing on neighbours", worse is that they are PROUD of it.

So, yes take pride in this, it is a very important step on the road to dictatorship.

So we have gone from:
their pride in their undeniable intellectual superiority over us little people,
to pride in their ability to shame us (and their righteousness),
to pride in their reporting us,
to ....

It is the left that maintains that they are intellectual free-thinkers, free-spirits, capable of discussing openly any subject without bias, capable of analysing any situation, capable of producing a truly free mind.

Yet it is the left that is steadfastly marching us down this road, and proud of it!!

Way to go lefties, you are certainly showing us!!

Website displays a pic of the Green menace (scroll down). It's no longer fantasy/sci-fi. The menace is real. The Green menace is on its legs. It's boss is Canadian Mao Strong.
...-

1938
Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre Broadcast of H.G. Wells' The War of the Worlds.

From the Broadcast....

""Now wait a minute! I see something on top of the cylinder. No, it's nothing but a shadow. Now the troops are on the edge of the Wilmuth farm. Seven thousand armed men closing in on an old metal tube. Wait, that wasn't a shadow! It's something moving . . . solid metal . . . kind of shieldlike affair rising up out of the cylinder . . . It's going higher and higher. Why, it's standing on legs . . . actually rearing up on a sort of metal framework. Now it's reaching above the trees and the searchlights are on it. Hold on!""
http://www.rense.com/general4/hg.htm

If they really, really want to make a difference, next time there's a climate change conference in some far-off locale, do it by teleconferencing.

I think the lefties should make the the ultimate sacrifice, by offing themselves. Their moans about over population can be heard far and wide. Nothing would please gaia more then many human sacrifices. It works for allah.

Front page headline; a screamer.
Ottawa Citizen/MSM: fearmongering warmites.
This is outright socialist/Red-Green political propaganda.
...-

"Canada faces climate disaster: memo"
http://tinyurl.com/2s5e3b

Who is this guy that the greens are trying to make aware of Global Warming?
Are they sure he really exists?
Is he a deaf dumb and blind guy living in a cave in the deepest darkest jungles of Manitoba?
There can't be more than one guy out there who needs his awareness raised, can there?
We hear the greens ranting about GW 24/7, I think maybe everyone knows by now.
Maybe there are a few old Japanese soldiers hiding in Borneo who think the war is still on and that haven't been preached to by Gore or Suzuki, but that must be about it.
I'd have a lot more confidence in the predictions of doom if these idiots could figure out that
WE HEARD YOU THE FIRST TIME!!!
EVERYBODY HAS HEARD ABOUT IT!!!
WE JUST DON'T BELIEVE YOU!!!!!

Love the Nazi chipmunk picture. Nothing says "I love you!" like a personalized photoshop.

Speaking of empty gestures....THIS JUST IN!!

Al-Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan say they're "seriously considering" a complete surrender to Canadian Forces, given reports of civillians across Canada who have slapped magnetic yellow 'Support the Troops' ribbons on their pick-ups and SUVs.

"Our insurgency tactics were working fine, until we started getting reports that many Canadians - mostly Conservative Party members, we hear - have been displaying their patriotism on their motorized vehicles," said one terrorist.

"I had this IED all set to go tomorrow, but since the news of all these patriotic Canadians hit the region a few days ago, we've been pretty demoralized. I think it's time to call it quits. Most of our commanders feel the same way.

"Damn those yellow magnetic bumper things! Freedom wins again!!"

Thank ye, johnny, for proving my point. Or was that an attempt at humor. How Does that mind manage to work after Doc Holliday filled it full of lead?

stan

""""Maybe there are a few old Japanese soldiers hiding in Borneo who think the war is still on and that haven't been preached to by Gore or Suzuki""""

Ummmmm, I think suzookie has that one covered:-)))))

Any idiot with 1/2 a brain knows we can't continue spewing gases into the air. Figure it out. No I'll believe the oil companies over DAvid Suzuki. I know he has a scheme. Right. Of course oil companies have depended on stupid science to make their case.

ok4ua~ very easy, then. Stop Breathing.

Vroooooooooommmmmmmmmm!!!