Lights out at MichelleMalkin.com Update (noon): Flipped the switch
Update: It’s noon and I’ve flipped the switch back on. Let there be light!
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Today I am going dark.
We’ve turned out the lights at MichelleMalkin.com. Why? To raise awareness of empty awareness-raising gestures by Gulfstream liberals, Google energy hogs, and Gore-worshiping cultists whose DAISNAID (Do as I say, not as I do) environmental alarmist policies would send us back to the Stone Ages.
I urge you to help Raise Awareness of all forms of enviro-nitwit-ism, too, by:
*Cranking up your thermostats.
*Returning your CFLs.
*Protesting PETA’s animal cruelty and animal rights/environmental terrorism.
*Purchasing a carbon debit package.
*Informing your local public school teacher of Al Gore’s electric bill before he/she attempts to cram “An Inconvenient Truth” down your kid’s throat.
*Sending your favorite SUV-basher to visit The Concourse of Hypocrisy.
*And using as much toilet paper as you damned well please, guilt-free, while humming Sheryl Crow’s “All I Wanna Do:”
Don’t worry. Lights will come back on at noon. Happy April 1.
Lux et veritas floreant.
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I’ll drive my Hummer all day today.
I want to say that I really laughed out loud just now.
I was walking around Wal-Mart today and saw that about half of the light bulbs there were “green”. It made me sick! The public just sucks up what these politicians say without blinking! Thankfully, it’s my first time getting to vote and I’m going to use it!
Wait until all that mercury (from millions of CFs) builds up in landfills and contaminates the water supply. What then?
I love your site, but honestly, Michelle, turn up the thermostat? Do we REALLY want to help out OPEC and their agenda to destroy the West just to send the left a point?
yay Michelle!
My lights are on most of the day any way even if it’s sunny out.
Enough of this Gorebal Warming crap.
golly! it’s dark in here! gives me the creeps!
where’s my nvg?
This is awsome.
Michelle, you totally crack me up. Outstanding. What a wonderful way to make a point.
Excellent!
Viva Le Charmin.
But…. But… my electricity bill hasn’t even hit $30 for a 1400 sq. ft. house in six months! I LIKE my CFLs!
Ok, the above is actually real (yeah, I’m averaging around $90 for utilities a month, and I love that), but great post, Michelle!
Hey Luigi #4,
Turning up the thermostat uses stationary power sources, not oil. We don’t get coal from the middle east. We won’t be helping those buggers. (I do agree with your sentiment to not help them any more)
Michelle,
I love this idea. I’m glad you’re spoofing those maroons at google. They had one bright idea once, now they’re biliionaires and think they know everything about the known universe.
Actually it kinda looks pretty cool like this, and easy on the eyes.
i wonder if folks have figured out that shutting things own like that costs more $$$$ in the long run. google is comprised of moosetwits.
Kudos, Michelle. I think this is absolutely brilliant. I myself was this week considered to be the grasshopper in the old ant and grasshopper tale because I refused to acknowledge the “dangers” of “climate change.” After all, as I was told, the cause of the snow in Chicago late last week was solely due to man’s impact on the planet, because apparently weather is static and is quite predictable, and if there was no man-made global warming, we would have experienced a “normal” March day. Incidentally, when pressed for the definition of such a day, one could not be provided.
You know, before my freedoms are taken away, I simply would like a bona fide case to be made - for all science to be considered. Until Al Gore and his minions can provide it, I’d like them to keep their hands out of my wallet and their noses out of my business. And for the record, for those that would like a cleaner planet, why not sanction the Chinese? They’ve generated more pollution than most other industrialized nations combined. Why must only those that are free suffer the burden of transient causes?
I have been appointed the Commissar of the North Korean Carbon Offset Project. As such, I will accept set-offs of Carbon Excess Usage quantum’s of infinite amounts from degenerate, environmentally polluting white
dogscitizens. Preferably in the form of American currency printed in America, and surplus radioactive metals of a 99% purity of any source.Just when I thought Michelle’s site couldn’t get any better (it is outstanding, btw), I see this.
ROFLMAO!
Every day is April Fool’s Day with the enviro-wackos.
We just need to make sure the joke’s not on us.
I like this look, it’s like a velvet painting.
It makes me want to turn down the lights and think thoughts of love.
Giggle giggle snort!
heh…heh…I drive a car that gets me about 13 mpg around town - then again I can do 0-60 in 4.2 seconds. Think I may have to do a little extra “street painting” in honor of this event.
17 - ah yes. Energy consumption and pro-creative, heterosexual intercourse. If you manage to do the deed with your legally and lawfully wed spouse of an opposite sex in a parked Hummer with the heater running, I’m sure somewhere, somehow, a lefty’s head will explode in impotent anger. The NERVE of some people! Continuing our species! Do they not see the tears of Gaia? DON’T THEY SEE THE TEARS!?!
I’ll be using my computer all day. Something interesting that I found out the other day is that my laptop uses about 15W of power. I had installed some device that measures wattage, and then was nearly floored by the fact that it uses only 15W of electricity. After thinking about it, it made sense as my 55 Whr battery lasts about 3 1/2 hours so that measurement is accurate.
My laptop computer which has 20 times the computing power that NASA had when they put Neil Armstrong on the moon, consumes 1/6th the energy of my desk lamp. If that doesn’t make you go wow, I don’t know what will.
As for my contribution to today, I’ll be running 3 batchs of fairly intensive numerical calculations on my laptop. After describing how energy efficient my laptop is that suddenly doesn’t sound so power hungry >.>
OH man… but I LIKE my CFL’s! They are a clean, natural daylight color, not an off yellow. Tell ya what… I’ll, um… I’ll DEFINITELY turn up the thermostat, and I’ll drive around doing errands tomorrow. And we’ll use the truck. And um… gosh, there’s got to be a DOZEN things I can do…
I wonder what the environmentalists will do, besides have major coronaries, when a volcano erupts. Now that is CO2 deluxe! I hear nothing about Hawaii’s Mauna Loa. I’d also be curious if another Krakatoa went off. I suppose Al Gore would be the first to encourage laws insisting on SUVs to combat the global cooling! If another one like that went off, I’d miss everything. I’d be too busy rolling on the floor, doubled over with laughter. So, after all the warming and cooling the Earth has had over the past 2000 years, most species, including polar bears, are now going to die off? Well, any excuse will do to promote totalitarism in this country. Oh, yes, this is quite a treat, Michelle. Wasn’t expecting it.
Global warming is AlGore’s bedtime horror stories for children. Much more scarier McSame believes them to be true. McSame makes Bush look like a rocket scientist.
Look It’s April Fool’s day. Is GoreMcSame
not the biggest fools ever seen.
Gee, if the environment is so damn delicate that killing off an owl or bug will topple the food chain and put us all away, then someone forgot to tell that to the asteroid that wiped out almost all life on earth some time ago.
Well, to me, these eco-greenies are simply intellectual cowards; it’s far easier to strut the touchy-feelly thrill of saving whales and seals and beating down baddie corporations than face the ugly brutal faces of terrorists and tyrants who’ll have the means to wipe your family and millions more off the map, in which case how the precious environment won’t mean a thing.
James Greenidge
Queens NY
I turned on every light in my house at 8:00 Sunday night in honor of Enlighten the Earth Hour. Normally most of my lights would be out (to save money) but it was worth it to support this great cause!
I wonder what high priest Al Gore, and the congregation of the church of global warming, will say when Iran or North Korea light off their nuclear warhead…the one they say they don’t have…against one of their neighbors (like S. Korea or Israel)? Welcome it I suppose. They love N. Korea, Venezula, and Iran. Besides, it’s great for planet cooling.
You Michelle are the most awesomest smarta$$ and I love you for it
Al Gore may be a overstuffed windbag, but he scores when it comes to the stock market. I wish I had his GOOG stock position.
My point is this: Gore and his buddies are setting up their next scam. They are starting companies and buying (as little as is necessary — they can get on the boards as directors to provide cover from discrepancies between loud politics and quiet scams, Williams and Delta Finance) nice sizable positions.
In what you may ask? In those companies who will score big when Al and friends make their bottom and top lines balloon with the force of law. If you can’t get a legal monopoly like Microsoft, the next best thing is to outlaw all the competition.
So look for those companies who will get windfalls if any of Gore’s crackpot concepts gets shoved through the next Congress. If you can pick up on where Gore and Friends are investing now, you may just have a present coming your way.
Personally, I like GE. Ever since Jack Welsh retired, they took a hard left turn and are positioning themselves to score across the panoply of their various businesses.
Avoid trucking. Warren Buffett’s into railroads for a reason…
Terrific! You are the best, Michelle. The liberals will have make this country a socialist quagmire if we let them.
Great idea Michelle. Love the new look. I’ll lock the front hubs and burn an extra gallon or two on the 4wd truck.
It was too early for me this morning, Michelle, to link into darkness.
You got me there for a moment.
Great job this April Fool’s Day!
I don’t mind the new look at all. I’m an amateur astronomer. I’m at my best in the dark!
I’m doing my part by selling all of my carbon credits.
Anybody want to buy some carbon credits? They are brand new and in mint condition.
When I saw the site; first thing that popped into my mind was Newt Gingrich.
Yes Michelle, I thought you got hit by the same bribe that Newt took which led to his appearance in an Al Gore commercial with Sharpton!
I apologize.
Today, I promise not to nag my four children (reproduction already accomplished!) about leaving the lights on, air conditioning the neighhborhood, and running all electronic devices at the same time. As an extra bonus, we will pile into the van and burn overpriced fuel just so I can listen to Rush while sitting down. Have a great day, everyone!
This is making my eye’s hurt.
Uh oh, side effect #2… dizzyness.
Easy there, AJ. Just find some pictures of Michelle to look at and your eyes will be fine.
“Faux News Alert”
Breaking News!!!
L.A.M.E.
(loud a$$ music evironuts) has discovered a crack in the earth that is growing from noise pollution!!!
spokesperson I.M. Dipshichtiz stated
“if we dont shut up, the planet will split in half”
film at 11:00
Enviro-weenies suck.
Michelle, this rocks.
aj,
love the sense of humor.
My dream come true!! MM in the dark.
;-p
Thanks 30, i did it just for you for that terrific pecan pie recipe… maybe I’ll turn the oven on all day and bake 40 pies, anybody want one… lol
GREAT idea Michelle! Folks, let’s fill our trucks with as much Middle Eastern oil as we can! That will show the corrupt middle eastern regimes!
I know! Those bulbs may save money in the long run, but they were created by the Cult Of Environmentalism and should be SMASHED! Plus, do they even fit in trailer light sockets?
You obviously hate America.
I love your sense of humor Michelle. You are the best.
Now I have to drive back up to the school because my son forgot something. I suppose Al Gore would want me to save gas and make him suffer.
Happy April Fools Day to All!
Michelle a very original way to get the point across to the junk science hucksters.
Michelle, I laughed as well, you’re so funny.
On Saturday we had every light on in our house during the “dark time”.
Today I am going to do the shopping and ride around PWC in my SUV.
That’s great, Michelle.
On Saturday, I turned every light in our house on (except my son’s, as he was asleep).
When eco-nuts start seriously talking about things like nuclear power and alternative fuels that aren’t ethanol (which jacks up food prices and limits food supply…you know, for PEOPLE!) then we’ll talk.
In the meantime, I have a problem believing using 2 squares of TP, not eating tangerines, or turning off my lights for an hour are in any way effective.
Although I do believe the “Lights Out” campaign is a teaser for how liberals want us all to live - in the dark, without power, on a night when it’s 34º outside.
Michelle,
So, you’re the one!!! I’ve been wondering who has gotten to my wife and daughter!!! When we’re all in the house, I usually spend the day following those two turning out lights after they’ve left a room. (and both of them profess to be environmentally sensitive)
sausage, I have always wondered if you are the patty type or the weiner type. You are definitely the weiner type. Just because you are an id10t, instead of sitting in the parking lot at lunch today and smoking my cigar I am going to ride around the entire hour and use as much gas as possible while listening to Rush. What a waste of gas and it’s all your fault. What does your boyfriend think about you lacking a sense of humor? Be careful or he may find someone more gay and happy. You can’t tiptoe through the tulips with that snarl on your face.
Michelle,
YOU ROCK!!! I came here and started to LOL right away.
Only one way to improve this day. Delete comment #45. We don’t need trolls hampering our fun!
Happy April Fools Day all (cepting trolls).
He Sausage,
I’d like to fill my tank with American ANWR oil, but dopey people like you won’t let me!
Good morning all and thanks for the laughs! I’ve a letter to editor battle going w/local global warming nut (D). One son’s family came here for spring break to “escape the walls of snow and subzero temps of frozen Wisconsin”.
Go Tar Heels! Support the troops! Thanks M.M.!
This enlightened me.It’s like the old saw,I’m a mushroom,kept in the dark and fed BS by the MSM, until I found this site.Lights on.
Actually, I kind of like this.
But isn’t putting the site in “blackface” some kind of racist statement? And lord help us if we were ever to have a “brownout.” We know Google can get away with such things, they’re good liberal a–h*l*s, but the rest of us? Sorry about being extra sensitive, but I think I’m becoming a liberal.
April Fool!
Most of the oil we use here is domestic, Mexican and Canadian, but let’s not let the facts get in the way.
I mentioned this at the google lights out link….
but if you have a CRT monitor, for black, the electron gun doesn’t light up that part of the screen..
as far as the actual savings.. maybe a few pennies a year… if that..
Flat panels.. another story..
Good on you! That will show ‘em! When you pay that higher electricity bill you can laugh at how much difference you have made against those mad environMENTALists (GET IT??!?! MENTAL?!?!)
Although not turning your son’s light on is what a liberal would do, so you might want to re-think that next time.
No kidding. I hear all liberals want everyone to live in the dark without power. That’s just a known fact.
You are a true American patriot!
Honestly Michelle! How can you be so insensitive to Gurgle, Gore and Gump?/s
At my age when something comes up blank or black I think my eyes (& mind) are going. But when I saw Michelle’s picture on the side of the screen I thanked the Lord I could still see the beauty He created.
Hey MM-
Here’s a shout out from one University of Memphis student who loves this practical joke!
GSP
PS So what are you going to do for an encore on Arbor Day? hehehehe
Thanks for the laugh Michelle. I’ll be putting some miles on the Jaguar today in your honor.
Are you sure you want to “turn the lights back on” Michelle? I’m really diggin’ the black and pink layout!
Let’s not let the id10t ruin our day folks. Since his comments are not likely to get deleted (so we can enjoy this momentous occasion) let’s just:
I G N O R E
H I M
On Arbor Day those of us that have fireplaces can cut down a tree and use it to heat our houses. So as not to use heating oil.
Haha.
The irony in all this envirosymbolism is that power plants operate 7 x 24 all day, every day. Though we have an on/off switch in our homes the power plants generate power all the time. And there’s no way to store the power they generate. They burn coal, gas or oil and produce steam which drives the turbines to create electricity. This flows onto the distribution grid for all to partake. So whatever savings one realizes from going dark, the sad truth is that you’ve only wasted all that fossil fuel for the satisfaction of more stupid liberal symbolism.
“This flows onto the distribution grid for all to partake. So whatever savings one realizes from going dark, the sad truth is that you’ve only wasted all that fossil fuel for the satisfaction of more stupid liberal symbolism.”
This is also true with “gas boycotts” where people think if they all boycott gas stations for one day it will make a difference to the oil companies. They don’t realize that you also have to stop driving that day to for it to matter.
I’ll turn on my air conditioning while I’m gone and then turn on the heater when I get back. Of course, the house will take time to heat up, so I’ll drive around a while, wait thirty minutes in a drive-thru with the engine running, and then run right into a tree. Maybe.
I guess I’m ahead of the curve!
I had sauerkraut for dinner last night and my production of methane is way, way up!
I will start my car, then lock the doors, and then take the bus to work.
I saw Google do this the other day and all I could think was, “wow, that really saved a lot of energy!”
sarc off/
I will be sure to order a pizza tonight (Domino’s of course), have it delivered so that there are increased carbon emissions from my delivery driver. I will then gorge myself on pizza. I will also make sure I make an extra trip as a tribute to the empty-headed fools who think they can manipulate and blackmail people into changing their “glutonous habits” through fear mongering.
I will also make sure I pump more gas into my medium-sized SUV so as to contribute more to those evil oil companies. This will also ensure that I’m doing my part to contribute to the economy through my pizza and fuel patronage.
There, I feel better now.
I’m going to buy a cow.
I can’t see a thing! Going for a drive in my F150 tonite. In the dark.
I am going to drive to emjem24’s house for pizza. She has to live several hundred miles from me. Since my truck is so economical, I am going to rent an H1. I will lower the tire pressure and drive 70mph in second gear so I get next to nothing for mileage. Then, because I am not being responsible for my own actions, I will stop by the state capital on the way home and see if I can get some gooberment official to bail me out of the massive credit card debt I will run up.
Michelle, you are just awesome! I have always kept my thermostat at 72 degrees. I threw out my CFL’s( yes, threw out not recycle) they don’t work anyway in the 3-way mode. The technology is crap.
I drive a 1999 sedan that burns gas. Oh every incandescent light is always on at night. Whoops forgot to turn on my garage and patio lights on for all day today. See ya in a bit!
On April 1st, 2008 at 8:16 am, englishqueen01 said:
Me too! For that whole hour I not only had every light in-outside the house on, but all four televisions and both computers! It felt very liberating.
On April 1st, 2008 at 8:51 am, sausage said:
Second only to my donation to President Bush’s re-election campaign, it’s the best money I ever spent in fighting back environmental fascists!
I don’t like it, no sir.
My hubby and I have done our part - we had three kids, drive and SUV and a truck. We refuse to use those stupid mercury laden lightbulbs. Our kids are homeschooled. And I work daily to try and educate ill-informed family members about the global warming hoax!
BRILLIANT!
I had an 82 Chevy pickup.. best truck that I had ever..
but one bad thing..
you would pull into the filling station to check the gas and fill the oil..
Wow - this is one ugly blog!
I’m opposed to SUV’s myself. But not because of any environmental B.S. . . .simply because it’d be nice to decrease our dependence upon foreign oil, instead of buying these monster vehicles that are typically used to transport ONE person.
Terrific capper to a great post. “Let light and truth flourish.” Awesome!
Remember the nitwits who turned off our Nuclear power plants, who said don’t drill off shore or in Alaska, who put scrubbers on power plants that require more polution to maintain, than what they reduce. Remember the nitwits who classified the work of Nichola Tesla (still classified today).
This is one area where I disagree with Michelle. I’m not a global warming alarmist and I question how much of this warming is caused by natural effects vs human causes. I detest Al Gore for his hypocrisy Irregardless of whether we believe in global warming, we should all want clean air and water. We should all want energy independence which has a conservation component in addition to the need to develop more domestic energy sources ( oil, gas, nuclear, solar, wind, etc. ) We should also have a healthy concern about the over use of plastics and other non biodegradable materials for packaging and other uses.
There is a common sense middle ground to this debate about environmental issues.
+1
If the whole world drove Yugos, liberals would say the same thing about them, and want to tax them and make people drive pedal cars.
My husband read this and left me a message to read it
between counseling sessions. I love it!
He said to tell you, you are awesome Michelle and he
has informed everyone that he works with (who have a
sense of humor) that they DO NOT have to use BOTH
SIDES of their toilet paper all day today!
Beautifully put.
I agree about Al Gore too, he makes me most nauseous.
But when it comes to “common sense middle ground” - that would be nice, but as you can see from the comments here, some people will never get it.
David Cameron (Conservative leader) in the UK has the right attitude on green issues and hopefully conservatives on this side of the pond will see how caring about the environment isn’t some liberal grand master plan that will see the destruction of America.
Love it! Thanks for the giggle this morning.
“black Tuesday” Good idea!! Was the choice of color just co-incidence?
Make it stop, dear lord, make it stop!
Oh yeah! Here’s a fun fact about me for the environmental crowd–I work in the fuel industry. I even drive a gas burner to work.
When I clicked the link I thought I hit the wrong link… I thought Michelle suddenly went emo on us…
To those concerned that there are a few of us who don’t exhibit a knowledge of ” common sense middle ground”…. I resent that. We know that the earth is ours to steward, we know that energy independence is the best way to go. But we also know that climate change is natural and we are not so arrogant to think that humans are so powerful to affect global change. We take the time to act in mocking fashion to reflect the stupidity of the lemming like followers of the Goracle. But don’t ever tell me CFL’s are the answer or nuclear energy isn’t safe. I know better. We are intelligent enough to live responsible lives…. so let us have our fun. I’m going to anyway.
Snausage #45:
Aren’t you expending energy blogging on this very site right now? Do the greenies a favor, and give your fingers a rest…perhaps that overinflated sense of self will ease down a bit.
Talk about no sense of humor… don’t liberals (oh, cough, cough… conservative sorry) ever laugh… nope just the ones making money off of the global warming scams and similar guilt trips.
Anyone ever read Catastrophe? It puts Al Gore’s
scam in a whole new light. Everything changes over
time and it will continue to change whether we are on
earth or not. It’s natural.
How weird: At the reminder to use as much TP as I want, and to hum that inane Sheryl Crow song, here’s how it came out in my head:
“All I want to do
Is wipe my bum
I’ve got a feeling
I’m not the only one
“All I want to do
Is wipe my bum
Until the sun comes up over
Santa Monica Boulevard”
There is a risk of some serious chafing….
Instead of turning off lights, I propose all environmentalists hold their breath for 1 hour to eliminate the carbon dioxide they produce by breathing. This would also have the added benefit of significant noise reduction and allow the rest of us some peace and quite.
Geeze Ms Malkin! Don’t scare me like this. I clicked to the page, saw the black background, and thought you had fallen for the 1 hour of darkness nonsense. Then I remebered it is April 1st. LOL! Good one. The whole turning out the lights thing had/has about as much influence on reality as a candlelight vigil. A total “feel good” thing that affects nothing at all.
Good grief. I’ve been saying the same thing over the past several years, particularly in the past two days as a result of the “Earth Hour” idiocy. Good rule of thumb: whatever the enviro-nazis want, do the opposite. Maybe this idea is finally taking hold.
The story of human history has been the drive to improve the human condition. Today’s environmentalists want to worsen the human condition.
They want to impose their “religion” on you every bit as much as Usama bin Laden and the Islamists do.
Fight them. By thought. By word. By deed. Any legal way you can.
Civilization depends on it.
Human existence depends on it.
If the whole world drove Yugos, liberals would say the same thing about them, and want to tax them and make people drive pedal cars.
Well, whatever we drive is going to get taxed. At least with Yugo’s, we’d get better than 12 miles per gallon, and the amount we’d get taxed on would be alot less
The lights will be turned back on in 11 minutes…
He who leaves the biggest carbon footprint when he dies, wins.
My new bumper sticker
It’s about time you made this a website of color, Michelle. For far too long you have caved to the man and imprisoned yourself in that all-white environment. You have broken out and you are FREE baby, FREE!
/sarc
You know what they say 30 pcs, once you black you never go back
To quote an oldie: “How do you increase the value of a Yugo? Fill up the Gas tank.”
BTW, Michelle, I DO like the black masthead - it shines!
Hehe, brilliant, Michelle!
Let’s raise a toast in styrofoam cups!
I, for one, would support the one hour dark time for Earth Remembrance Day (or whatever in the heck it’s called) IF, and only IF, that meant that Al Gore had to shut his trap for the other 364 days and 23 hours of the year.
That makes me feel happy inside.
I have to agree with the person up above who said that the black masthead shines. It does look mighty nice up there!
I saw this at work today and it made me laugh, so I thought I ‘d share the story.
I happen to work for a well known housing developer that is experimenting with “green building” (much to my chagrin). After holding our green building conference a few weeks ago (which I refused to go to on principle), we had a few leftover props. One of which was a 3d paper model of a “green” house, as determined by Energy Star guidelines.
Two of the more interesting features of the house were the solar clothes dryer and the rain recovery system. These sound like fancy, new, “green technology,” and if you only heard someone talk about it you’d think we’ve made serious technological progress.
But guess what?!? A soloar clothes dryer is nothing more a clothesline (I kid you not). And the rain recovery systerm is merely a large bucket you place under the downpipe from your gutter.
Apparetnly the word “green” is synonomous with “19th century.”
vsatt,
Good one.
Sheryl Crow’s “All I Wanna Do:”
Say whatever you want…this was a great video…& she was serious till she wasn’t…..all that flap over 1 piece of toilet paper…shoulda kept her musician-mouth-to-brain-function on alert.
OK….Michelle & Sausage…
Please!!! don’t smash these bulbs, & YES!!! they really will make you very sick….they contain mercury….which makes them incredibly UN-environmentally friendly….I NEVER understood why Pajamas Media pushed them……LEDs you guys!!!….LEDs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-emitting_diode
gorgeous, clean, super-cheap LIGHT! w/ out the side effects of MERCURY!!!!
I’m looking outside right now and it’s snowing. (Not entirely unusual for Spring in CO, I admit.)
Cashmere goats are dying from the cold.
China had its coldest winter in 100 years.
Baghdad had its first ever recorded snowfall.
Over the last 10 years (during which CO2 emissions have grown significantly), the earth has actually gotten cooler.
Speaking for myself, I’d rather it warm up a bit.
After all, solar powered dryers don’t do much when it’s cold outside.
Forget about buying a cow, buy lots of beans (frijoles), cook well, eat and let your own body produce lots of greenhouse gases :p /major sarc!
GSP
On second thought; I am going to the bell and have some cheap 89 cent burritos to do my part at destroying “mother earth”.
Thanks tacobell!
GSP :p
We do our part every damned day by driving a Cadillac, a Corvette and a Lincoln. If they could be driven simultaneously, I would.
I’ve said it before, but… I like CFL’s. Not because they’re green, but because they’re economical. They pay for themselves within a few months, and actually turn a profit within the first year. Yeah, they have mercury… but I’m not a blustering ham-handed infant, so I’m not too worried about it. Whenever I meet an enviro-nut, I always tell them the same thing: “green” has no future outside of capitalism. The way you make a difference is by innovating and creating technology that offers cheaper or better alternatives to current technology. Don’t give me a super-expensive and super-complicated hybrid car that costs more over 5 years than a conventional car. Give me a conventional car that gets 80mpg (my non-hybrid Toyota Matrix can get up to 40mpg, which rivals some hybrids, without the extra cost and complexity). Expecting people to opt to pay more for “green” technologies is a losing business model, except among the most self-loathing of Hollywood leftists. It’s not about figuring out how we’re going to pay for green tech. It’s about figuring out how green tech is going to save people money (and make money for the sellers of such technology). The only type of “carbon credits” I’m interested in are the ones that keep more of my money in my pocket.
It’s not about how graceful you are, it’s about land fill & mercury poisoned runoff…..you know, fish/oceans/mercury!…nursing mothers/mercury….Japan http://www2.hawaii.edu/~juliancl/mgt423.html
LEDs ~ Light-Emitting Diodes
http://www.mtmi.vu.lt/pfk/funkc_dariniai/diod/led.htm
They will never be pushed because the Power Co. will really loose money when they are used because they cost virtually nothing to run & can last a lifetime…..& finally….like I said…the light is beautiful…not the sour yellow/green of those mercury bulbs…besides, those bulbs can cause seizures & ‘curoius skin rashes’.
http://www.blogrunner.com/snapshot/D/4/4/lowenergy_bulbs_worsen_rashes/
Can’t have mercury around as I am deathly allergic to it, even in shellfish
and my used to be favorite fish, red snapper, until the levels got too high.
Don’t trust those bulbs because I just might break one.
Anyone remember the ’70s when this same group of nuts were screaming
about global cooling? In thirty years, it will be what? Heaven forbid!
Global normal?
TXRose…..I just pulled all of those bulbs out of my house when one was broken by accident. Who ever thought up such a stupid idea & hoisted it on the public as environmentally sound??! Do you remember the Pajamas media blitz for these light bulbs??? I don’t get it. If you have to recycle a product w/an instruction booklet replete w/Industry heavy-metal cleanup gloves….maybe you shouldn’t market it in the 1st place…?…!
Wow! Just got my first (unsigned) hate mail for calling global warming a fraud in ltr to edtr. Must have touched a nerve! Michelle, I’m sure you deal with this on a daily basis and isn’t it kind of scary how some people react?
This seems to have touched a nerve with at least one
other site. Don’t know why people can’t see that
Global Warming is a scam. It’s like watching lemmings
run headlong off a cliff.
I agree, Coldfront. If you can’t just throw it in the
trash, there’s something wrong with the premise. It’s
supposed to be better for the planet but as usual with
these eco nuts, it’s worse for the people ( after all, they consider us a virus on the planet.)
USMCgramma
I had my response to a Goracle wanna be rejected by the local paper in my neighborhood for the same reason. Dontcha just love shining a light on the media…?