Wingnuts Wanted to Negate Earth Hour -- With Stupidity
By Bob Cesca Sunday Mar 29, 2009 5:00am
Last night at 8:30 was Earth Hour when everyone around the world was supposed to turn out their lights for one hour in order to raise awareness of the climate crisis.
But throughout the wingnut blogotubes, they decided to turn on all of their lights as a too-clever way of canceling out Earth Hour. Here's another wingnut who's offering a list of suggestions for how to go about doing this. Utterly brilliant suggestions like:
8. Burn tires
Smart! Your neighbors will enjoy the fumes and odor coming from your hillbilly bonfire.
24. Leave your oven open
And maybe climb in.
34. Turn on your air purifier
Yes. You're going to need it when your house fills with fumes, gasses and stink from your open oven and burning tires in the yard. Incidentally, if the air is so clean and unpolluted, why the air purifiers?
A couple of years ago, there was a website where you could pay to have a tree ripped out of the ground in order to cancel out the purchase of Carbon Offsets. I'm happy to report that the website no longer exists. Awww. I wonder why.
I have a few more suggestions for any wingnuts who might want to cancel out Earth Hour.
1. Just burn a stack of money.
2. Write a check for $100. Send directly to hostile Middle Eastern Islamic petro-governments. (Don't forget to dot your "i's" with little hearts.)
3. Fill up your SUV with gasoline. When your tank is full, proceed to fill up the passenger compartment, too.
4. Why only an hour? Leave all your shit on for a month! Enjoy your bills.
5. Buy a carton of smokes. Smoke all of them in your backyard while using your burning tires as the world's most awesome hillbilly lighter. When your hair and face accidentally catch fire, your burning flesh and hair will cause more delicious pollution! Once you're good and sick from the fumes and smoking an entire carton of cigarettes and, you know, burning your face, pass out on top of the burning tires.
Even if there wasn't any consensus on the causes and effects of the climate crisis (and there is), what's the point of counteracting Earth Hour? Take the science and environmentalism out of the equation and we still have a pretty serious energy crisis. Don't the wingnuts remember their ridiculous "drill baby drill" chant? That was a response to there being not enough affordable fuel to go around. But whatever -- crank up your utility bills if it'll make you happy, wingnuts. It's your money.
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If that want to waste their money like that, then let them.
Hey, why not cut out the middle-man and just burn the money?
The is the best example yet of how well the right wing thinks things through. Hilarious!
I call their party the RepubliKLAN party: Religious nuts and tax cut sluts.
The party of Herbert Hoover and George W Bush.
George W Bush appears the Southern version of Herbert Hoover.
I see the Spanish government has begun a prosecutorial procedure aginst some high level Bush officials. Good.
I hope they also include SloboGeorge MiloseBush too.
but Dubya is actually a New Englander...
the crawford ranch is a political prop.
Obviously these "protesters" can easily afford a TAX increase!!!
What a bunch of morons! While I don't buy all this buying carbon offset BS, I do believe something has to be done. A polluter buying credits from a non-polluter does NOTHING to decrease the polluter's affects on the environment. It is pure crap, designed by pretend eco-friendly corporations.
But I'd sure luv to see ol' BillyBob lightin' his cigarettes in a tire fire!!
Just more proof of the "Party of NO". No ideas just oppose it.
Their position: Whatever them ****** liberals are for, we're against!
What a bankrupt ideology.
That was well written. That's some funny stuff.
Sadly, it's true. Those dumb asses could find their ass with both hands.
The worlds most awesome hillbilly lighter.LOL.
I've been practicing energy conservation for decades.
I do earth hour every night. All night. Got all my lightbulbs switched over to energy conservation types. So that when I do use them, I'm not draining the grid too much.
This reminds me of a conversation I had with some GOPers over at PoliPundit. They said they'd start their trucks and suv's in their driveways and burn a whole tank of gas in my honor. They called me a Prius pansy. I imagine after last summer, they were singing a different tune. It's their mentality. Stupid.
But we pretty much live a low consumption life already.
Me too. At night I have two little lamps, on lowest, like about 30 Watts (they have dimmers). My TV is the biggest waster, but living abroad it's nice to have some English TV.
Darned!!!!!!!! I forgot!!!!!!!! Again!!! Maybe it's OK, though, cause I usually only burn one light, the TV, and the computer. I don't have much to turn off!!!
Wingnuts, on the other hand, are hilariously stupid.
Hey, they should have gotten Joe the Plumber to be the spokesman. He could have gotten on stage and lite himself on fire.
I happened to have a layover in Las Vegas at that hour. Saw a lot of half-lit dim bulbs sitting in front of slot-machines. Does this count?
Their philosophy reminds me of the commercial where the working woman leaves the house -- and all the appliances on. It's as if they have a right to waste energy resources for no good reason, just because we live in the greatest country on earth! Stupid. And wasteful.
We left our house dark by accident because we were gone for that hour.
I totally forgot to participate. I had to go to my mom's to fill up her pill dispenser for the next week, write out some checks to pay her pills and take out the garbage. By the time I got home it was almost 9:30 and my wife was watching tv in the bedroom and my kids were watching tv in the basement, and I was like "Oh shoot!"
Oh well, there's always next year!
As for the wingnuts, as I wrote in a post on my blog last night, these people are so determined to be spiteful towards anything they deem liberal that they would probably cut off their own penises of they thought it would offend liberals. Well, I for one would be very offended, so I guess they better start looking for some clean, sharp blades.
The issue isn't money or carbon emissions.
The issue is, pardon my French, a bunch of idiotic godfuckers who actually believe that if they destroy the environment, that "jeezus" will come. They actually believe that destroying the environment is an obligation and a duty to their mythical "god".
Is to piss off as many hippies as possible in as petty and vindictive a way as they can.
It's sad.
It's not just hippies, it's a whole lotta people-- ones that care, and want to try.
If you visit some of these Asian mega-cities of 20,000,000 plus (like where I live), you'll soon realize how many people there are on this planet, and how fast that number is growing. Everyone wants to live like "the American dream," but that is impossible: our planet cannot sustain it.
Korea has 50,000,000 people in an area the size of Lake Superior. There is no wilderness left-- people everywhere.
The best way at this point to weaken the rightwingers would be to have an Earth hour every week. They would end up spending a big percentage of their money trying to use up resources while the rest of the country is saving money. In the long run, that leaves them with less money to support their party.
Organize boycotts against their major contributors. Cut off money to them.
You realize that when you buy products from GOP contributors that you indirectly give money to the GOP?
contributors also contribute almost identical amounts to the Dems though.
where do you save money ? you cant! the power companys own the power! they own the politicians who regulate the price you pay for electricty , and natural gas, if you have a mild winter and you use less gas then you did last year the power companys appeal to the politicians for a one time raise in your gas bill to make up for the lost money you didnt have to pay them, same goes for your water bill, and the politicians approve the power companys request , they aint going to lose money for thier owners ,
Not only is it sad it is a window into their minds and how they work. Sometimes I listen to a little right wing radio to see (hear) where they are coming from. Know your enemy type stuff. There
iswas this guy Spencer Hughes on Fox Talk Radio (Sirius). He was so bad that John Gibson took his place. Hard to believe there is somebody worse than Gibby. One day he is going on about how the hotel he stayed at had a note in the bathroom to not use the towels unless you needed them so that the hotel did not have to waste water and fuel and whatever else they waste when they have to wash and dry and disinfect and deodorize and fold and deliver towels for no reason. So good ole Spencer went on and on for a long time about how he took every towel and hand towel and wash cloth and threw them on the floor and walked on them and made them as dirty as he could. Nobody was going to tell him what to to. How do these people think the way that they do? It is truly fucked up.What a messed-up waste of human DNA this Spencer Hughes fellow must be.
Just unreal.
And to think I actually clean up my hotel room before I depart ...
Oh, well, I'm just a tree-hugging, nature-loving liberal ...
(And damn proud of it ...)
I know whenever we have a major Sabbat in this area, generally during Litha, we have many local covens meeting near a pre-chosen lake. The people who own the camp-grounds don't mind at all. Because the last afternoon we're there we pick up after ourselves. Generally we're so thorough, we pick up trash that may've lingered for years from cowans.
What is wrong with these people?
They really seem subhuman.
I have nothing but contempt for them, of course, but I'm also curious how they got that way.
They are just fundamentally different than us. When somebody goes and does something destructive (like this examples in this thread and my example above) just because they disagree with somebody else they are missing a gene or something. When somebody stands behind Sarah Palin and actually thinks she would be a good President, they have a screwed up chromosome or something. When Somebody thinks that George Bush did a great job for the past 8 years they are obviously a sandwich short of a picnic. When somebody makes up a list of how they can screw up an attempt to bring attention to a world problem they are missing more than teeth. They are just screwed up in the head. There are millions of examples of how they are screwed up but it never ceases to amaze me.
I've long thought that a right-wing mindset is an actual mental disorder: hostility, paranoia, lack of compassion or empathy, pathological lying, denial, inability to face facts, disconnect from reality, a desire for (and enjoyment of) the suffering of others, and so on. It's no doubt fortunate for them that Bush's "mental health initiative" that suggested psychological evaluations of every American died on the vine years ago.
Monkey see. Monkey do.
They are Neanderthals! Probably have short upper arms and short legs or other Neanderthal physical characteristics in addition to their limited conceptual thought processes, poor memory and short attention span.
It's simple, their brains never evolved beyond the reptilian stage. They are incapable of caring about anything except maybe the unborn, because the unborn don't need to have their diapers changed, they don't need to be fed, they don't cry and wake you up in the middle of the night.
Both Earth Hour and Anti Earth Hour are laughable, as is your contention that there is total agreement on the causes and malleability of global warming.
Grapes are fruits aren't they?
Are you saying, it's a much better idea to do nothing, and hope the tooth fairy fixes things? Cross your fingers, close your eyes.
"Malleability of global warming".... What the hell are you talking about? That doesn't even make sense. Using big words inappropriately in order to sound intelligent without looking them up first is one of the hallmarks of wingnut idiocy.
They're the kind of people who suffered severe toilet training in boot camp homes and learned to fake rugged individualism. What they really became were narcissistic, thumb sucking anal retentives. No mystery there.
so there is zero reasoning with a group of people so detached from reality...Don't expect them to do anything to help the environment- because they think the only ones left behind will be those who reject Jesus
they should all drink a gallon of gasoline then piss in their swimming pools
Or, light a match.
"But whatever -- crank up your utility bills if it'll make you happy, wingnuts. It's your money."
Bob Cesca should get an award for most pithy and hilarious piece to highlight wingnut idiocy.
How about every Sunday night at 11pm? It's after the news, and time to go to bed anyway. Plus, people might leave off even more stuff overnight, possibly even leaving it off on Monday.
"Earth Hour negated with Stupidity"
Republicans as the source could have been derived from that, because remember, "If it's stupid, it's Republican!".
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WOW... I mean wow. Being the "immoral" commie atheist that I am, I have hardly ever believed in the good versus evil concept. However, I truly TRULY believe that these a**holes are the epitome of evil and everything wrong with the world (well, along with organized religion, of course.)Ripping up trees?!?! Oh my flying spaghetti monster! THAT is just disgusting. I wholeheartedly support the rounding up of people like this and deporting them to a man-made concrete island. yeah.
Here's some footage from around the world of Earth Hour:
http://gotchamedia.blogspot.com/2009/03/earth...
A few weeks ago when my f* nooz, pedo pig/nazi boy (insanity)/dildo listening nephew was visiting he threw a fit over me separating my recyclables and taking them to the recycling bins. He kept being prissy all night and continued for the rest of the week.
Is how the Earth became a political issue. I don't really see how its open to debate. What exactly do they think the cloud of smog over LA is made of? Freedom Smoke?!?
How can caring about the small chunk of rock that we precariously cling to as we hurl through the cosmos, and the thin coating of atmosphere around it that keeps us alive...how can that be something that divides people?
--everything the right proposes. Your point however is well-taken; fifty years ago when I was in 6th grade and the first Whole Earth Catalog came out we were taught that if we don't stop polluting our atmosphere with auto and industrial emissions then our kids would not have a future for their kids. Today the face the conservatives see representing global warming is the Supreme Enemy, Al Gore. They conveniently ignore scientists the world over, such is the hatred for Gore. In a nut shell they, like everyone, hate to be wrong; only moreso.
The cons are just upset they can't come up with anything original. They even had to borrow from the American revolutionaries and borrow the concept of the Boston Tea Party. Naturally, being stupid, they made themselves look stupid by having a teabag party. No wonder these guys can't do anything right.
wingnuts chanting "No we can't!" in response to Obama's slogan at McCain rallies.
And then they wonder how come they lost the election!
It's like those clever retorts we used in kindergarten. "I'm rubber and you're glue... "
I don't want these people to be considered the same species as the rest of us who actually did evolve. If anyone has any suggestions as to what to call them other than human/homo sapien it would be much appreciated.
I saw some comments (at YouTube) about turning everything on for Earth Hour, but I thought it was just some mealy-mouthed brat, not an organised protest.
Utter stupidity. Willful and obstreperous assholes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nIlFsERnmk
consumption, rather than income.
It's crystal clear to me now that the only way to get people to use less is to tax the consumption and purchase of goods. The more food per kilo you purchase, the more it costs. The more petrol you use, the more it costs. Etc. Etc.
We should be encouraging savings and investment, and discouraging consumption.
and walked through some of the comments. Good lord but I will be glad when we can ignore these people. They live and breathe stereo-types. And they seem to have chosen the LCD (lowest comm. Den.) for their own type.
Most people haven't grasped what an anti-environmental scam are carbon offsets.
Read George Monbiot, and others. It's a complicated subject, but keep in mind that people are collecting your money so you don't have to emit less carbon....
... think about whether that really make sense, or sounds more like a scam. The more you look, the clearer the scam becomes. But it's hard to figure out because there is a lot of propaganda and money that doesn't want you to figure this out.
Go and study... and think twice before your try to clear your conscience with a promise of a tree growing somewhere... maybe... someday... a tree that would never have existed without your payment... and not just one tree but a whole whole bunch of trees that would ONLY exist if you paid someone something.
Think.
And moreso because of the inherent truths to the piece.
One little request, Bob. How's about making the funny without slurring me, my family, my people and my region? "Hillbillies?"
Really, Bob? You think it's hillbillies that are the problem? Me, I'm proud to be associated with some of the bravest, most passionate, most intelligent folks involved in the work to save the planet. Bob, they're ALL those people you refer to so inelegantly as "hillbillies."
Since you probably don't get too close to Appalachia very often, let me just remind you that "hillbillies" are treated like sub-Americans every day of every week. Our wells are poisoned, our skies filled with toxic dust, our homes' foundations cracked, our streams toxified. And it ain't because we're burning tires. It's Corporate America. It's coal. It's Mountain Removal coal extraction.
A simple query: would you use "n****r" in a post? How about "redskin?" If the answer to either is "No," then add "hillbilly" to that list, as well, please.
Enjoyed the post, hated the 'hillbilly' crack.
I grew up in southern West Virginia. These are my people you're talking about. We might have bad teeth but our brains work fine.
Im not some troll, but to me, earth hour was some stupid email suggestion I got. I didnt use more energy during this hour than normal but i def didnt light any candles and koom bai ya myself into feeling good about saving the earth one hour of my energy consumption. This just seemed like some silly idea and I am glad I did not participate. Sorry if that rubs you the wrong way, but this idea was dumb.
Listen to Rush for two weeks? Shirley, you jest. Can anyone listen to Rush for two minutes without a Barf Bag? If it's Good For America, Rush is Agin' It. Now he tries to sabotage Earth Hour by turning on all his Christmas lights. During World War II, you couldn't listen to Tokyo Rose unless you owned a crackling short wave radio that could pick up a signal all the way from Japan. Today, we have America's favorite Quisling broadcasting into living rooms and car radios all over America. Axis Sally didn't know what she was missing. Today, traitors and saboteurs, like Rush, are given prime time national radio exposure. Rush wants America to fail. So did Axis Sally and Tokyo Rose. Well, America survived Sally and Rose. We'll also survive our current Fifth Columnists, especially Tokyo Rush.
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