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Saturday, March 28. 2009

Conspicuous non-consumption

How will you celebrate Earth Hour tonight? Had I a Hummer, I'd take it out for ice cream.


Even though there is no warming, everybody seems to want to do the meaningless but conspicuous token virtue thing. Watt's Up. Moonbattery wants to celebrate Tom Edison via Human Achievement Hour.


If anybody really believed this stuff, they would cancel their electric instead of wagging their finger at me.

Posted by Bird Dog in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects, Our Essays at 17:05 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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I put underfloor heating up a couple of degrees and turned wetroom into a paddling pool for the kids...wasteful and fun!
#1 thud (Link) on 2009-03-28 20:58 (Reply)
Lit the house up like a Christmas tree!
#2 Jephnol (Link) on 2009-03-28 21:35 (Reply)
Most of my neighbors who are hard working people have their lights on as it's a Saturday evening as they have guests. Normally, all of us try to keep our electric bills lower and use common sense. Tonight, however, as I did last year on this sophomoric and moronic event, I turned on all my lights, inside and out, to celebrate the freedom of choice that is still ours. That is before BHO and his legions try their hand at deepening the already creeping totalitarian system.
#3 John Hetman on 2009-03-28 22:02 (Reply)
Went out to dinner tonight. Saw no lights off. Not everybody is loony.
#4 Bird Dog on 2009-03-28 22:08 (Reply)
ROTFLMAO, if I too, only had a Hummer! Lets all burn a candle for co2 now.
#5 Jack on 2009-03-28 22:50 (Reply)
Bird Dog. This is the reason I read at Maggies Farm. Thanks for the laugh. I have beer spayed all over my monitor!
#6 Jack on 2009-03-28 22:53 (Reply)
We had snow so we turned up the heat! Bring on the Gorebal Warmening. Faster, please.
#7 jdgjtr on 2009-03-29 00:43 (Reply)
Will rent a HUMER just to buy ice cream. Thanks for the sanity.
#8 Alan M Stults (Link) on 2009-03-29 00:46 (Reply)
Finished off a very nice Bordeaux( French), that was while we were eating a wonderfully rich and refined beef -only 2 months on corn- the rest of the time on range grass from OR, and before we indulged in nitrogren rich, fresh grown strawberries from CA. After that it was very rich coffee from Indonesia. Ohh--I forgot the German fizzy water!
#9 apple pie on 2009-03-29 01:16 (Reply)

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