From Pascal
comes this stupidity:(not Pascal’s stupidity, for he has none, but he refers me to it)
On March 29, 2008 at 8 p.m., join millions of people around the world in making a statement about climate change by turning off your lights for Earth Hour, an event created by the World Wildlife Fund
I’ve found several people close by who will rent Klieg Lights. I can also rent a smallish one like this for about $200 a day.
At the very least, I’ll be aiming my halogen work lights skyward, for the hours in question. Fuck these self righteous morons. Who’s with me?
27 comments Og | Uncategorized
Count me in – let’s light it up!
I heard about this a month ago and plan to switch on every light and electrical device I can during that hour.
As you so eloquently put it, fuck these self-righteous morons.
Warning — that link you posted has caused both my IE and Firefox browsers to crash.
I plan on raising every shade on every window, and turning every light on in the house. All Flood lamps, some I haven’t used in years, are going ON.
Heh Heh.
I’m fucking in. Commies.
Fuck those arrogant pieces of shit. The A/C’s going down to 60.
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I’m there.
I’m also responsible for the lights on a certain downtown Indianapolis building. They’ll be on.
Bah. I’ll look toward the L.V. Strip and salute:
http://www.planet99.com/pix/7687_1.jpg
Tim Blair and company (way down under in Australia) have been talking about this for a couple weeks now. There are many signed on to light up everything in their vicinity and fire up the grills and cook ’em some meat. Works for me. I thought it was a down under thing and offered to do my bit to light up the great Northeast on the night in question at 8pm my time (as I have no idea when 8pm Oz time might be here). :-)
Besides, I’m all for global warming. Think of how I won’t be using heating oil!!! Also, if the polar ice caps melt, I think I’m in a pretty good place to end up with beach front property! Bring on the heat!
You bastards! I’ll get you!
OK, I’m hip to the scheme. I’ll light up every bulb in the shack, and even go out and fire up the Ford V8 and turn on the high beams. While I’m out there, I’ll carefully dump all my neighbor’s recycling bins into their garbage cans.
Damn, it makes me wish for a spotted owl to BBQ…
If I only had a rain forest available to clearcut.
Klieg lights. Brilliant!
What complete, utter, pointless stupidity.
I mean, you know, both, but at least stupidity involving Klieg lights is funny. ;)
Fakers, the lot of ’em. I nearly got escorted off a car lot the other day by a self-righteous salesman who was annoyed that I wanted to know if he had a new Tahoe that was NOT a flex fuel vehicle. He blustered about the environment until I pointed out to him that the amount of gas it takes to produce enough ethanol to make using the corny stuff practical sort of negates the point of ethanol. He had no answer. He just told me maybe I’d find something better suited for me elsewhere. I agreed.
Count me in.
Hell, I go ahead and start all the vehicles in my driveway which are capable of running (5 out of 7, including the Ram 1500) and fire up a couple of propane heaters to boot.
Self-righteous morons, indeed.
I saw a story on t.v. last night about how they’ll turn off the skyscrapers in Chicago’s Loop, and of course the Theatre District is 100% on board with this. All I’m thinking is, thanks for letting us know where the muggers will be. The lightless city, a horror of Edgar Allen Poe’s day revisited upon us, this time voluntarily.
If I didn’t think the FAA would get me, I’d be on the roof with the 1,000,000 candle spotlight, trying to illuminate Mars. But plan B is turning on every light in the house and using the electric meter’s blade as a bologna slicer.
I own one cf bulb, and that’s because it was given to me free last year from Home Depot on Earth Day. I’ll keep my incandescents just out of principle.
“Fakers, the lot of ‘em. I nearly got escorted off a car lot the other day by a self-righteous salesman who was annoyed that I wanted to know if he had a new Tahoe that was NOT a flex fuel vehicle. He blustered about the environment until I pointed out to him that the amount of gas it takes to produce enough ethanol to make using the corny stuff practical sort of negates the point of ethanol. He had no answer. He just told me maybe I’d find something better suited for me elsewhere. I agreed.”
First, sorry about your experience with the salesperson. He went about reading your intentions completely wrong and instead should’ve simply told you no, to have a good day, and grabbed himself another customer.
But I do have one question for you, if you don’t mind, that is.
What’s your problem with a vehicle can can run on multiple fuels as an option for no additional cost from your pocket? Do you even understand GM’s motives for pumping out these vehicles?
To me, the way in which you typed the comment anyway, you simply won’t tolerate any vehicle which is capable of being powered by an alternate fuel source. It also sounds to me like you were searching for reason not to buy, which makes me wonder why you even showed up on the lot in the first place.
Now, nobody here at GM says ethanol is perfect, far from it as a matter of fact. We simply look at it as a viable bridge, while in the midst of ramping up the plug-ins; what we are betting on for the future. We also consider ethanol a somewhat reasonable way to get some folks off foreign oil while we complete our next set of projects.
If you think this oil issue has an overnight, or even 5-10 year repair, you’re wrong, and dare I say, dangerously naive.
What’s being done now is a multiple year project, with multiple possible outcomes, some of which haven’t even been considered yet and I can assure you that we have some of the brightest minds in the world working on them. Nobody on the entire planet, to include the Japanese, has the complete answer yet.
The ethanol option is one way, and one way only, and there isn’t one person alive who thinks it’s the exact way. Nobody is requiring you to take it. It’s simply there for your convenience, and that’s all.
I apologize for the long comment Og.
What’s your problem with a vehicle can can run on multiple fuels as an option for no additional cost from your pocket?
Well, that would be his perogative, wouldn’t it? What’s your problem with red vehicles? or blue? Or trucks, wiht cloth seats? How about just providing what the customer wants, and not questioning hgis motives, becuase why he wants what he wants, is none of your fucking business, and never has been, and never will be.
As far as ethanol is concerned, it’s failed technology. period. Anyone who says anything else is just lying, because it’s bullshit.
Guess you didn’t read my comment.
Um,. wrong. Please see post above, where I hand you your ass.
You know what got my attention? It’s at 8 pm, but they don’t specify which time zone. So, it’s not everyone at the same time; it’s spread out over a 24-hour period.
It doesn’t seem like they realize this. Somehow, that doesn’t surprie me.
Guess I’ll have to put the Christmas lights back up.
It won’t be dark here at 8:00 PM, so turning on a bunch of extra lights won’t mean much. I do have a 1500-watt floodlight, good ol’ standard incandescent bulb, that I could dig out and make shine…. It does light up the night.
I’ll be turning on every single light in my apartment at 8….
All my lights are on, and I’ve been on the front porch shining my Surefire 6P with the drop-in Cree dazzle-your-foe pocket Kleig technology. Yeah, I’m draining those high-dollar lithium batteries faster than a greenie wench drops trou at the mention of solar powered electric scooters.
WTF was Earth Day again?
Wish I could have left all my lights and stuff on… but we had another “load shedding” power cut.
Morons in our country chucked out the plans for new power stations when they took over in ’94… “No need for such luxuries, we need the money for new BMW’s…”
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