Quite right. At 8pm tonight, rational Canadians will become aware of which of their neighbors live on programmed-control thought timers.
And then be aware that there are those who, while admitting their own token effort won’t make any difference, think that an hour of illuminated dissent will result in “driving up your electric bill”. This is less awareness raising than it is an IQ test for the candle powered.
But that’s not all. Be aware when Green Party peepers come prowling your property;
Between 8 and 9 tonight, I’ll be doing what I usually do at that time:I’ll be out with my wife walking our two dogs 5km around our small town.
Tonight, however, I’ll be looking at my neighbours’ windows to see which ones are participating in Earth Hour.
And I’ll be looking out mine to see which ones are skipping national Clean Your Firearms Day.
Related: Take a cue from Google – do nothing.
Earth Hour Offset Project* UPDATE! – SDA gets results!
UPDATE 2! – Be holistic in your efforts to waste. “This earth hour, think inside the box.”
This is your intrepid cub reporter Jimmy O. reporting from Grover’s Mill (Charlottetown).
Victoria Park and Government House are plunged in darkness…
This is eerie. This is like the Y2K-that-never-was.
Eight years ago, world-wide power outages were going to destroy us, now they are going to save the planet.
Now I realize what AGW is.
It’s Y2K in slow-mo.
The lights are out for all these green assholes anyway so really nothing changes, they produce nothing but manure so on the production side of things we see no change. I just might put up Christmas lights and turn every on every light I can find tonite, then I will sit down to watch the Flames spank the Oilers, and with any luck I won’t see those pathetic ads with the great Suzuker scaring little children or the one where the trespassing little useful idiot admonishes the nutless man for his beer fridge. If I found that cbc scumbag hiding in my basement it would be end of times for bullsh*t about global warming thats for sure.
Hi Rose:
Yup! same thing goes on in my area. A guy going through garbage looking for contraband waste.
Well as far as those greenies are concerned they’ll get no support from me. They’ll only wake up when we have a 20 percent unemployment rate after they’ve ruined the economy.
For God’s sake we all want a decent environment, but we have to ease into it when we are technologically capable of doing so.
I’m going to turn on every light in the house – and I’m going to leave them on for the weekend…. Earth Hour my ass
And remember, most folks only have two maybe three lights on at any given time. By turning on every light in an average house, you get to offset five to eight of these members of the Fruitloop Brigade!
I been religiously separating can and bottles, newspaper, and garbage per city regulation. Now I watch as the garbage truck rolls up. EVERYTHING is dumped into the same bin, even though the truck is designed for recycling.
Paper and cardboard, I burn myself down the back corner.
Yup, just about as asinine as red Fridays. But if you want to see programmed thought/ group think, just pay a visit to SDA, anytime, day or night, no waiting for 8.00 pm.
manny: i was thinking the very same thing as you at the very same moment i read your post — it’s almost as if it was pre-programmed. weird.
This is just another situation, where the dictatorial socialist types would like to dictate to anyone that lets them, what to do. There will be many that will conform and follow. Some of genuine naïveté, many others because it is the thing to do as a mass hysteria program goes on.
Jim Elve is beside himself with cleverness of coming up with a slogan, that if he repeats it long enough, it will be seared in his mind until the end of times, or global cooling, which ever comes first.
Isn’t Jim Elve just special? Surely he deserves to be carried on the shoulders of the green masses with glean in their eyes towards dreamed up future.
Earth Day is nothing but a load of crap. Plain and simple. So no, I’m not turning off crap.
Hockey Night in Canada had the Fruit Fly Guy on, and he introduced himself as “Don Cherry’s favourite left-wing kook.” At least he has that right.
I’m pretty much doing what I always do, plus running the washing machine and dryer, and seeding Fitna – getting leechers from all over the world.
Kate: the response you got from Ghost of Ed is typical of the kind of cause you make here, which is simply described in one word: negative…
You worry that the state is about to force you to turn off your motorcycle engine and then your mouth. Ghost Of Ed agrees and if anyone comes to his door he’ll put their “lights out…”
And another of your neighbours, John West; suggests the way to deal with all of this is to handle it the way we ought to handle them thar darkies over yonder down Iraq and Iran way. Kill ’em all.
I think you need to seriously consider the greatest contribution you can make to the world, Kate. Turn off small dead animals!
Hi Johnny, you mindless wanker. Just thought I’d mention there’s two TVs on, and just to make the point I turned on the porch light.
No burnouts tonight, I’m too lazy to put my coat on.
Maybe tomorrow. It’ll still count.
Tell me Johnny baby, you know what a Glasgow kiss is?
We have just finished celebrating on the east coast. I have lived in this house for 18 years and this is the first night that every possible light was turned on.
I photographed it from all four sides.
It’s 8pm here and we’ve got everything on in our place – except in the kids’ rooms (they’re sleeping).
As I look down our street, however, I see that most of our neighbors have fallen in line with their programming. I can even see some candles. The only exceptions are a couple of families from Russia and a Chinese family.
Oh well…I live in Paul Martin’s riding…so what else can you expect?
John Daly, another programmed zombie. He and his ilk would make a great cast for the next remake of “Invasion of the Body Snatchers.”
He Johnny.
Just looked out my window. It’s like daylight out there.
Are you there? Can’t see my screen, I turned it off for Zombies hour.
check out this anti-earth hour vid:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPo0zLZP6NI
Interesting comments thread at CTC.ca
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080329/earth_hour_080329/20080329?hub=TopStories
The Greenies and other leftist fools can crawl the darkened streets as they wish. There is a better chance of them being mugged than usual. Criminals like working in the shadows.
The move for more and more control by the left is lacking in one area. The Left has a pathological fear and contempt of firearms. The rest of us don’t. Perhaps that will make the difference in the end.
There is much more darkness ahead than will be created by a one hour lights out for superficial reasons promoted by the shallowest thinkers and obeyed by the weakest minds.
In my most PC of neighbourhoods, I just went for a walk around four blocks: about 80% of my neighbours have turned off their lights.
I’m glad to say the restaurant I like best has not. Not so in some others: what hypocrisy. The diners are more than willing to drive out for a meal and for the kitchen to be up and running full speed, using lots of energy, but pride themselves, no doubt, on conserving energy by sitting in candlelight. On the other hand, my non-compliant husband and I are having a simple supper at home, with a few lights on.
It’s against my religion, but, living in the midst of such juvenile craziness as the 21st century West has become, sometimes I have a death wish–or, at least, death doesn’t look so bad!
The usual tactics of the left in pushing their power over the silent majority. They want world dominance and with their buddies in the media they want slavery from the rest of us to their every whim. Will we stand against their tyranny when the time comes or wimp out? (real conservative)
Most of my neighbourhood (including me) has a bunch of lights on! The horror.
Where’s that Klaatu guy when you need him?
I stay on PST all year round, so I’m not sure if I should turn all my house lights on at 20:00 PST or 19:00 PST. Hell, I’ll just turn them all on now even though it’s a beautiful sunny day outside now.
I’m curious how many house fires there are going to be as a result of morons switching to candles when there’s a perfectly functional source of electricity present.
It’s hard for me to increase my energy consumption substantially as my computers are always kept on and at last count I had 9 machines on my network. They all run seti@home most of the time, but they’re also making Fitna available via BitTorrent now. I do have a massive PDP-11 in storage that would probably be good for 1.5-2 Kwatts but it’s too much of a hassle to bring it out for this occasion. I do have a couple of 1.5 Kw electrical heaters, but I don’t like using them as I have an aversion to using electriity to produce heat when natural gas is available (waste heat from electronic equipment is OK as at least the electricity does something in the process of producing waste heat). Will head out now to see what my electrical meter reads and will see how much power I can consume in 1 hour.
Judging from the comments over at CTV I’m sure our “neighbours'” would be more than happy to make any sacrifice imaginable to save the planet……..
unfriggin believable how gullible and unrealistic people can be.
As I posted on another blog, how much ENERGY has gone into advertising to save energy by turning off your lights.”
Of course I got a hate-spewing tongue lashing from one of the followers.
I am leaving all my lights on tonight.
The green spys were out!
There is a comment on CTV.ca that identifies the street and the fact that one home on that street had all their lights on including Christmas lights.
If any commenter here lives on Merton Street in Toronto… you’ve been ‘greened’!
Reading the CTV comments, half the people there actually believe they are doing something to Save the Earth!!!
PT Barnum was right and Al Gore is a post-moderniest Elmer Gantry.
There are going to be a lot of people in denial by 2010 I believe.
Remember when Bob Rae was elected? Very few people ever admitted they voted for him.
Now the media is hailing him as the next saviour of the country.
I’m observing Earth Hour at 8 pm. Hawaii time, in about 4 1/2 hours.
Meanwhile, it’s 10:30, I’m going to bed.
Yep … CTV site is funny. It’s almost as if some of the “earth mothers” on there are about to burst into tears at the thought that people would purposefully turn lights on.
I broke my rule not to comment on CTV and did. I must be sadistic, because I enjoyed hurting their delicate little feelings.
Now this is special!
“CBC Arts
Multi-platinum Juno and Grammy Award-winner Nelly Furtado will be gracing Toronto’s Earth Hour event this year with a free concert.”
http://tiny.cc/MPU0D
Ummmmm..let’s try this one…http://tinyurl.com/2o9hdu
It’ll be interesting to see if the birthrate takes a sudden spike Dec 29.
I commemorated Earth Hour by firing up a full dozen vibrators with Liberal logos on the side. In typical Lib fashion, I abstained.
Read the comments at CTV. The lefto-economo-fascists will have non-submission to the will of the elitists declared a crime any time now. Anyone not participating in earth day is a nonconformist and “a danger to the planet”. Certainly quite a projection of blame from greedy business and corrupt politicians to Mr. John Doe at 100 Daisy Lane, no doubt. Guess that fits in with Suzuki’s idea to arrest and jail people. So surprised.
“The lefto-economo-fascists will have non-submission to the will of the elitists declared a crime any time now.”
Dr. Peter Venkman: [steps in front of Peck] My friend, don’t be a jerk!
Walter Peck: If he does that again, you can shoot him.
Police Captain: You do your job, pencil neck, don’t tell me how to do mine!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Thank you, Officer.
Walter Peck: SHUT IT OFF!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087332/quotes
Its earth hour and we have most of the lights on in the house. The washer and dryer are going full blast and for entertainment we have 4 computers running along with a 200 watt home theatre, tv and someone just drove up to the corner store to get slurpees.
However we are not alone the neighbour is running his car which has a V8 engine in it attempting to jumper his diesel truck. He usually has to idle the car for about 15 minutes to get enough juice in the truck batteries. I’m sure that once the truck is running he will use it to run across the street to get his daily Big Mac combo.
As it gets darker out I can’t help but notice lights on in every house on the block.
I took a drive to Parliament Hill during Gaia Hour.
The building lights and external floodlights were dimmed, and about 50 worshippers were huddled around the Eternal Flame.
I wonder if they realized that CO2 is a byproduct of the natural gas combustion that produces the heat and light that they were drawn to for comfort?
The good news is that when I ventured to the Hill, it was -3C outside and now it’s -4C, so I can only conclude that Gaia Hour worked!
“Black Hole Eats Earth”
Read this on a posting here. Good title for an autobiography of Al Gore.Perhaps another phoney baloney climate film.
Maybe next time he will win a free trip one way to the moon. I hear there are manbearpigs their, as well.
…did my part. Fired up the Ford 150 4X4 Triton engine and let it warm up for 10 mins. Then drove to the corner store for no reason at all. Then drove downtown and cruised for greenies.
Loved the look I get from those little roachclip of a car, seeing my tires are almost as big as the pregnant roller skate, err, smart car.
Chester the monk seal’s lights went out permanently tonight! What a good little seal he was.
I am so disappointed. Walked around the area and nobody had any lights on,but coming back they where all on,including the street lights! Oh darn. Just realized that big,bright,warm orange thing in the sky went down about 10 minutes ago. So do we get a 1/2 hour credit??
We had our lights on, getting the kids to bed and a neighbor called me to remind me it was Earth Hour. Her first thought that I must have forgotten (not that I chose not to participate of course). “All your lights are on and your house is lit up like a Christmas tree” she said very self righteously. I politely informed my neighbor that I was aware of the time and day. That we were getting the kids to bed and we have chosen not to participate. She got huffy and hung up.
Yes Da Husband did turn on a “few” extra lights to make the point clear that we are not participating in anything that simulates stone age society. This event has no real value aside from showing that society can be taught to follow anything like a herd of mindless sheep. I wonder how many of the billions of people in China or India also participated. At 9pm I walked through out the house and turned off all the lights except for one light that I needed. I wonder what she thought of that 😉
On a different note, I loved the big, full color laser printed poster the library put up advertising the event. I wonder how much energy, papers and chemicals all the advertising for Earth Hour used up.
I couldn’t get home in time to shut off all my lights and appliances,so I drove the last 15 minutes with my headlights off. We all have to do our part to save the planet.I will sleep well tonight.
@Who You Gonna Call
Dr. Egon Spengler: Oh good, you’re here!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Yeah, what have you got?
Dr. Egon Spengler: This is big, Peter, this is very big. There is definitely something here.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Egon, this reminds me of the time you tried to drill a hole through your head. Remember that?
Dr. Egon Spengler: That would have worked if you hadn’t stopped me.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087332/quotes
It’s storming tonight on the eastern prairies and with the porch windows completely caked over “Earth Hour” seems about as relevant as Al Gore. There won’t be any Greenies snooping around here since they will be up to their yazzoos in fresh wet snow. Quite a metaphor for a world that is supposedly “on fire”.
8:00pm in Edmonton – it was still light outside. Not even the street lights were on yet. Nobody would have noticed if lights were turned off as it was still virtually daylight here.
Even my cat got into the act. She woke up about 30 minutes ago and then proceeded to wander outside around the house turning all the motion sensitive lights on. At 300W/unit this adds up to a fair bit of extra power and she seems to enjoy being able to turn the lights on.