Even Al Gore Blew Off "Earth Hour"

You may not have been aware of this, but on Saturday you were supposed to sit around in the dark for sixty minutes, starting at 8:30 PM, in order to celebrate "Earth Hour."

Now, you may be wondering: what exactly would that accomplish? I'm not entirely sure what the answer to that question is supposed to be, but I think the general theory was that the darkness was going to inspire legions of dirt faeries to fly in, sprinkle magic Pixie dust everywhere, and that was supposed to cool the earth off -- or something.

I don't even think the people sponsoring the whole concept really know. Still, to be fair, I went over to Earth Hour HQ, so I could provide their explanation for you,

For the first time in history, people of all ages, nationalities, race and background have the opportunity to use their light switch as their vote - Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming. WWF are urging the world to VOTE EARTH and reach the target of 1 billion votes, which will be presented to world leaders at the Global Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen 2009.

So, "Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming," and their goal was 1 billion people switching off their lights? Erm...I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there are more than 6 billion people on the planet. So, even if the Earth Hour hippies met their goal, the "vote for global warming" beat them by a more than 5-to-1 margin.

I pulled up to Al's house, located in the posh Belle Meade section of Nashville, at 8:48pm - right in the middle of Earth Hour. I found that the main spotlights that usually illuminate his 9,000 square foot mansion were dark, but several of the lights inside the house were on.

In fact, most of the windows were lit by the familiar blue-ish hue indicating that floor lamps and ceiling fixtures were off, but TV screens and computer monitors were hard at work. (In other words, his house looked the way most houses look about 1:45am when their inhabitants are distractedly watching "Cheaters" or "Chelsea Lately" reruns.)

The kicker, though, were the dozen or so floodlights grandly highlighting several trees and illuminating the driveway entrance of Gore's mansion.

I [kid] you not, my friends, the savior of the environment couldn't be bothered to turn off the gaudy lights that show off his goofy trees.

When the leading spokesman for the "We've gotta live like the Flintstones or the planet will melt" crowd lives in a mansion with multiple spotlights and floodlights illuminating his trees, I think it tells you a lot about how serious of a threat to mankind the alarmists really believe global warming is...

I am writing a book, called “Rebellion”
The theme of the book will be civil disobedience, aimed at the Marxist environmentalists.
I want to open the book with the protest being acted out, in one city, but the book will make clear that the protest is being repeated in every single State, in as many cities as possible.
A tire will be soaked with kerosene. Then, a match will be thrown onto the tire. This will, of course, cause smoke that will be seen for miles. The use of the sand and shovels, prior to these events, to spade the ground and clear grass and brush, will be for purposes of safety, it will not be the intent of any protester to cause any danger to life or property. In some cases, it will be best to burn the tires in a ditch or pit.
The “signal” of course, will be seen for miles and miles.
As people notice, and emergency vehicles respond, fliers will be passed out, which state the obvious falsehoods of the “global warming” hoax.
A United States Flag will be flying upside down, in distress mode, close to the burning tire.
In hundreds of cities, in all 50 states, hundreds or even thousands of people repeat this act of civil disobedience, simultaneously. Volunteers will pass out fliers with the pertinent political justifications.
In some cases, nobody will be arrested. In some cases, the authorities will realize that we are setting them up for a court battle that they do not want.
However, in those cities where an arrest is made, we swing into LEGAL action:
This is “Free Speech” which you have upheld, at the United States Supreme Court, where a United States Flag was involved. In this case, we did not burn the flag, we burned an old, useless car tire, in order to draw attention to our upside down flag. The United States Flag, in distress mode, was an integral part of our protest.
The use of the car tire was deliberate, as this protest, itself, is against the tyranny of the environmental movement, its lies and its power hungry grab for power.
Our protest is a protest you do not have to agree with, but our protest is one that the United States Supreme Court MUST uphold! After all, if it is a “Constitutional Right” to burn the flag, it is entirely conceivable that someone could burn thousands upon thousands of flags, at the same time, and STILL be protected by the Supreme Court of the United States, is it not? (Even if those flags, collectively, would produce as much smoke and CO2 as a burning tire!)
And, we will also remind the liberals, in this book, that they have limited our rights to free speech and dissent, through the “fairness doctrine” or clones there of.
In each city, all across the country, the person who handles the car tire, the gasoline and the matches will agree, ahead of time, to go all the way to the Supreme Court, if needed, to assert our Free Speech protections.
Smoke signals have been around for centuries.
Smoke is all they have left us!
The purpose of the smoke signal was to make a political statement and to generate a crowd.
How best to protest against the EPA than to make smoke?
And, once we get the Courts to understand that we have free speech rights, to burn tires, just like the flag burners have free speech rights, to burn flags, we let the liberals know:
We will burn tires, in every city of the country, until they back off on any carbon tax!
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What do you think of my book idea?

So, “Switching off your lights is a vote for Earth, or leaving them on is a vote for global warming,” and their goal was 1 billion people switching off their lights? Erm...I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there are more than 6 billion people on the planet. So, even if the Earth Hour hippies met their goal, the “vote for global warming” beat them by a more than 5-to-1 margin.

I would think there are at least 1 billion people in the world who do not have lights to turn off...the President’s half-brother in Kenya, for instance. Also 8:30 PM Central Time in the USA would be what, 2:30, 3:30 AM in Europe?

Do those lights off count?

I heard this guy on local talk radio...he said Nashville turned their street lights off...the hostess asked how many muggings there were that night.

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