8:30 is my daughters bed time. But I will be using some form of electricty to make up for the carbon I would be causing by having my lights off to get the little girl to sleep.

I might be out of town during Earth Hour.

Will I get penalized if I turn on a bunch of lights, but not all, to make up the difference between turning them all on for that one hour?

Full power ahead at 8:30 tomorrow evening! I suppose it will save a lot of electricity for all those urban skyscrapers to turn off all their lights at 8:30 pm ON A SATURDAY EVENING, WHEN NO ONE IS IN THE BUILDINGS ANYWAY! Duh. What a statement – of stupidity!!!

I’ll also have 4 computers and 3 ham radios on. Let the current flow!

Mailloux has a great one going since Tuesday here with a lot of good ideas in it. Hope you’ll consider looking at that one!

From the archives, your humble correspondent rabble-roused about this last year:

http://archive.redstate.com/blogs/skanderbeg/2008/mar/26/action_alert_for_saturday_lets_make_earth_hour_a_festival_of_lights

Fiat lux! Et erat lux!

Driving to and fro all day.

Lights will be a-glow.

60″ flat screen will be tuned into MLB.channel … even when I’m not in the room.

And I’ll have the fireplace spewing CO, CO2, soot and other particulate matter.

turns out it absorbs to much heat…..so….no more black people,

no Goth people (sweet)

no Vampires,

hey! no more Magicians (they scare me)

I guess Solar panels are out ,

no more Prince of Darkness?

and no Black cars…

for Earth hour I will invite all my black friends over to lay in the sun in my backyard…just doing my part…

Even with normal 3 day weekends(part time, yet well compensated gov’t employee), I put off my laundry AND IRONING until Sat night.
In the morning, I plan to make sure that I have enough incandescant bulbs to start a Christmas Tree fire burning brightly in Delaware.

Might even break out the RED Christmas light for a little extra emphasis.

I will forgo my normal practice of spending my hard earned money at local small businesses on Saturday, (I’ll visit them Sunday) just to make rich the local power monopoly. They’re not the guilty party. If they could do nuclear, they would, but too many NIMBY’s in Biden’s state.

I have notified the FAA that my house is not being illuminated as a substitute airport (KILG/KPHL).

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Count me in – my house will be lit up like Christmas. I have to keep stuff on anyway because I have to work until midnight. By the way, won’t some Hollywood and/or network types be upset at the hour they are losing by not watching television, etc.? I might light up my house AND drive around.

America will enver be destroyed from teh outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves. – Abraham Lincoln

From the EarthHour website:

“We know that turning out the lights for one hour will not solve the climate change crisis,” said Moss. “Earth Hour is a symbolic event, but symbols have played an important role in the political history of our country – from the Boston tea party to Dr. Martin Luther King’s march on Selma. We hope that the symbolism of Earth Hour will likewise motive people to act.”

So basically, EarthHour doesn’t really have a point, but it seems like fun, anyway. Just pretend it makes a difference in your head, and you can accomplish anything!

Last year, Google made it’s website all black in observance of Earth Hour. But it takes more energy for a computer to render black than it does for white. Way to go, nitwits.

will be having all the little Children writing about how they participated… or to SHAME THEM if their family did NOT participate…. Right after they are NOT allowed to say the Pledge because of the “Under God” in it!

Those wonderful “Diversity” minded (yeah, right) NEA Union bozos. The Soviets must be proud of the American Indoctrination Factories having improved on their models of “corrected thinking” teaching!

this feel good stupid exercise doesn’t actually matter because the power companies always run the plants 24/7/365 and store any energy for the time when its needed, like when these idiots turn their lights back on.

Burn, baby, Burn

Every light in my house will be on. Of course the lights in my garage will be on as well (3 4 foot fluorescent fixtures so I can work on my cars). I’ll have to break out my high intensity halogen work light–I haven’t used it in years. I’m going to put it out in front of my house and light up my house!

If it is cool enough I’ll throw a log on the fireplace!

Too bad gasoline bonfires are illegal–I have a gallon of “old” gas that I need to get rid of.

a couple of lights off in my two boy’s bedrooms, but the rest will be on. In fact, I have a pre-lit Christmas tree that hasn’t gone in the back of the garage yet and I’ll light it up.

To put myself in the proper frame of mind, I may go and buy more lights, just so I can turn EVERYTHING on…then, I’ll step around to the side of the house and watch the electric meter spinning out of control.

BWA HA HA!

I heard about this crap the other day and my first thought was wondering how many appliances and lights I could run during that very hour… Count me in.

Every light will be on. I might even get the Christmas lights out of the basement and put them out again!

The website is gone now, but through archive.org, you can still see a cached version of the site. Absolutely hilarious.

Go to http://web.archive.org/web/20071015053939/http://www.carboncreditkillers.com/

This is a concept that must be reborn…carbon debits to offset carbon offsets.

First time I saw this I ended up on the floor. Greatest “right back at ya” ever.

I’m going to pour oil on a duck.

… now if I can just figure out how to keep my printer running for an hour. Oh, wait! I could look for a pdf of the porkulus bill! Better get some ink and a case of paper. Fresh paper, not the recycled stuff, then take it outside and burn it!

besides, the whole, mostly liberal neighborhood has a progressive dinner tomorrow as luck would have it

But what I AM going to do for lunch is–

1) Start a fire in my fireplace with a fresh piece of hickory,

2) Bake out the propane grill hard (it’s due), and barbecue something special like a lovely bit of venison the wife has in the freezer.

3) Watch FOX New Channel, and

4) Prepare my notes for the locals that think global warming is real, and tear them a new one over drinks and appetizers!

Grass roots level, up, baby.

You’ll be able to see The News Factor headquarters from space tomorrow night. We’ll be mega-watt bright. Pictures will be available later in the evening at:
The News Factor
http://thenewsfactor.com

I will be on my way to my birthday party at a bar. On public transportation. But, do you have any idea how much electricity Metro uses?

I will have some appropriate drink in honor of this mess.

Did ya’all see that Fox News got the UN to lower their estimate of how much they will save by participating in this stunt? At first they were claiming $81,000. Actual savings $102. Someone else do the math.

Every light ; all TV’s with the surround systems tied in ; plus the computer and all three monitors. After cranking up the big Kitchen Aid stand mixer, my kitchen will then be awash with the smell of a baking cheesecake (Oreo crust of course).

I just bought an ice cream maker tonight, so tomorrow evening will be the first batch made (I’m thinking fresh banana fudge) ; I’ll take out some of the ice in the auto-ice maker in the freezer so it’s gotta go to work a bit ; even the Crackberry will get plugged in for recharging.

Hmmmmm, my carpeting needs a vacuuming….. got a feeling I can put that off until tomorrow evening as well.

A/C ? It will be set at 72 degrees of course…….. but I like a breeze, so all the windows and the deck door will be open, plus all three ceiling fans will be on.

Laundry……. Whoops ! Oh my, I forgot to do laundry the past three days…. looks like tomorrow night is the right time.

Funny how my dishwasher tends to be completely full on Saturdays after dinner too.

And for the ultimate topper……. If anybody happens to be able to look in my home, they’ll see me sitting quite comfortably at the kitchen table cleaning my pistols and doing the initial sights, rails and scope setup on the brand new DPMS-Panther rifle I picked up a few days ago.

Git-R-Done America !

Okay, we’re doing well by exceeding the goals that even Tim Blair has set.

The purpose of “Earth Hour” (sick) is to turn out lights and sit around in the dark (like Jean-Paul Sartre) thinking about how dark it is (like Jean-Paul Sartre).

The purpose of “The Hour of Power” counter-event is to light up creation.

Now, if we’re going to upgrade this into a real carbon celebration, don’t forget that a nice addition to make is to consume (and then restock later) various products, brought to your home from the farthest corners of the Earth in maximally-carbon-belching fashion.

That should be easy for everyone, as there’s no shortage of things to consume – such as South African wine, Argentinian beef, Chilean grapes, Ukrainian vodka, Estonian mustard, Albanian raki….

Maybe we should add dining events (to share the quenching of hunger pangs among the travelers) to all those Tea Parties – we can call them “Scr*w ‘Buy Local’ Dinners”….

You have my pledge. Although, I had already decided to do my own little Al Gore and his ilk protest when I first heard when this stupid thing was going to happen. I’m going to have all our lights on in the house, the porches, the yard, the garage, turn on the dryer, make coffee, (although nobody will notice the dryer and my coffee, but, what the heck it’s for the environment, you know!)

Did the same thing last year.

The bulbs on the high ceilings are such a pain to replace that I must conserve them. I have some low-ceiling bulbs and lamps I can keep on though.

However, I do have some extra 100-W bulbs that I found are too bright for my eyes. It seems like this will be a good occassion to use them.

And I’ve got my 1500-W space heater that I’m sitting by most of the day anyway (while still leaving the house heater on 74), especially in this cold weather.

I eat chicken or beef every day (hypersensitive gut), so that’s not a problem.

as they would raise the questions (point/truth) that those (including the underwater eruption) spews out more Carbon, Methane and other gases, etc, than we do as humans over years of time!!! They cannot allow that proper perspective to take hold and temper their Human Emissions Paranoia arguments.

Last year when this thing came around I turned on every light, the microwave and turned the oven to 450 and just let them go. I solemnly pledge to do the same again this year and then leave home and drive my SUV (filled with regular instead of the normal premium) around town for a full 60 minutes.

and all the light will be on there during earth hour so I’ll be doing my part. I also speak with the wife and have here burn as much electricity as possible.

I use electricity when I want or need it, as I see fit, and I pay the freaking bills.

What morons attach such great meaning to futile symbolic acts? I would be more impressed if they used the occasion to insert incandescent light bulbs into their rectums.

I wouldn’t embrace their extremist causes, but I WOULD be impressed!

living in a red state is, nobody around here does the idiotic greenie stuff, so we don’t have much to protest.

14 Bulbs (I replaced all with 100 watt.), TV, Radio, Music Player, 2 laptops will all be working. And yes I won’t be around… I’ll be driving. To Albany and check out the Tea Party spot for next month. Heat will be set to 80 degrees in the house and car.

Going forward I will take printout of every email I receive containing this comment or any similar green crap…. “Please consider the environment before printing this email”.

I’m in and to go that extra step I’ll leave all those lights on the hour before AND the hour after!

I’m definitely in.

I will, and I’m posting on my blog, too.

No North Korean darkness for me!

I don’t know about you, but I.m not going to give the electric company one extra dime of my money for some meaningless gesture

In SPRING!!!!!

I might as well make the meter spin a little faster and become one of a thousands points of light!

Every light in the house, outside the house and i’ll be running the fireplace also. I bought a Carville book once that wasn’t worth finishing, maybe I’ll offer that up in flames to our mother earth.

Then, i’m getting in my SUV and driving around the neighborhood looking for Prius’s I can pull up next to and gun my engine.

If I did the links right, here’s two photos looking at my condo from the golf course.

Cheers !

And I fully intend to exploit it this evening. Every light in this oversized house will be burning. Every TV will be running. Every wall outlet that I can plug an appliance into I shall.

We will take our two oversized SUVs out for a drive tonight and belch just a bit more for all the lurkers and trolls reading this.

alternate the heat and the ac. Heat will be set at 82 (where the ac is normally set) and ac at 68 (where the heat is normally set).

TV and computer are on (I’m not even watching the television right now). Very comfortable. Exchanging emails with my idiotic (Republican) mayor who supported this crap and buys into the man made global warming crap.

Ahh.

Every hole is a beautiful multi-fountain display from tee to green….. this is definitely not on the timer. Gotta love golfers.

My place smells great from the cheescake, the cold air-conditioned air and the night breeze from the open windows.

This is the first time I actually don’t mind doing more than one load of laundry at a time.

I’ll be back after I get half the carpet shampoo’d and vacu-dried.

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Say a prayer for the folks in North Dakota. Allot of them can’t enjoy with us.

heat cranked up to 82 and every outlet in the house being used…sweet.

I hadnt read this yet but will comment on it now. I think doing something like this just out of spite makes us, you, etc look ridiculous. Use the lights you need to use, no one will notice you using more or less electricity unless you live in some ober hippy area where you might stand out. See The Conservative Environmentalist just posted for more.

Fox news crawler reported that …. I can’t wait to hear/see more as this story develops out!!! It certainly would NOT surprise me (or any of my fellow RedStaters) that he would take his usual “Do as he says, not as he does” approach with Earth-Hour as he does with all his other Carbon-wasting while Globe-trotting to spew more Carbon (from his endless speeches) out his mouth…