Edward Norton’s Earth Hour Plea Full of Hot Air
by Pam MeisterRecently, when babysitting my 8-year-old niece, she had trouble with her homework and came to me for help. The assignment was based on Time for Kids, a weekly publication for elementary school children about the news of the day (much like Weekly Reader when I was growing up – does that still exist?). She had to explain in her own words what Earth Hour, coming up on March 28, was all about. Unfortunately, I couldn’t tell her to write “it’s a load of hogwash” – she would have failed the assignment. Such is the brainwashing and social engineering that goes on in our school system today.
But it’s too bad my niece didn’t have actor Edward Norton to look to for advice. Not only is he the official U.S. ambassador for Earth Hour 2009, but he was on CNN’s Larry King Live this week, along with Alanis Morissette, to explain just how this symbolic act of the entire world turning out their lights for one hour will encourage world leaders to cap or tax carbon emissions through legislation. Global unity and all that.
Norton even compared turning out the lights for an hour to the famous civil rights march in Selma, Alabama in March of 1965:
If you think about things in our national history, the march on Selma in the Civil Rights Movement, the march itself, unlike some of the boycotts they did was not a, was not an act in itself meant to change the problem. It was a symbolic act and I think this is for my generation, for many people around the world who care about this issue, I think we’re looking for those kind of symbolic acts that show how many people are, are concerned about this.
The only thing the march in Selma has in common with Earth Hour is that they both share the same month. Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon these days for someone with a cause to promote to try to link it to the Civil Rights movement in order to give it legitimacy. Even The One himself claimed that his parents met at the Selma march in order to give His birth more meaning (even though He was three and a half years old when the first Selma march occurred).
It’s fashionable for Hollywood celebrities to “give back” by donating time – and sometimes money -to a pet cause, be it cancer, AIDS, or whatever. Not only does it make them look like they care (and yes, sometimes they really do), but it gives them free publicity. Everybody wins, right? Unfortunately for them, that publicity sometimes makes them look like knuckleheads.
Global warming has become a popular cause because it’s easy to tell other people how to live their lives while not necessarily making changes in yours. Just by “getting the word out” you’re helping. If Arianna Huffington doesn’t have to live the life of a global warming paragon, why should anyone else? And since you don’t have to have a complicated scientific degree (one only needs to look to Al Gore’s successful global warming career), just about anyone who “cares” can be an expert. Sheryl Crow, Laurie David, Leonardo DiCaprio and Carmen Diaz are just a few of the glitterati to lend their names to the global warming cause.
Looking back to the 1980s, noted scientist Meryl Streep helped hobble the apple growing industry in America when she became the face of the evils of Alar, despite the fact that claims of its dangers were unfounded. Perhaps Edward Norton is looking to cripple the economy in general by taking part in a hoax that won’t save the earth from anything (anyone heard of the sun?).
By the way, the economy includes movies and television. I wonder how big Hollywood’s carbon footprint is? How much does global warming owe to all of the electricity needed to run the hot lights, cameras, editing equipment, and air conditioning (or heating) for the stars’ individual on-set trailers? Not to mention all of the gasoline that is used traveling to and from site locations and to run the cars and other vehicles featured in the films and shows.
If Norton and others are looking for a way to lessen the threat we face from global warming, how about making the ultimate sacrifice by shutting down the entertainment industry as we know it? Actors and actresses could instead turn to live theater, giving daytime plays outdoors for maximum earth-saving benefit. They could travel around the country by wagon train to further shrink their carbon footprints. And just think of all the electricity we could save by there being no more movie theaters and no need for televisions, DVD players, cable boxes and so on in our homes.
Sure that’s ridiculous, and I would never actually expect it to happen. But if these cap and trade regulations that Norton is such a fan of take place, you can bet that the entertainment industry will eventually be affected. As it is, the recession is causing some celebrities to look for infomercial deals as acting and modeling gigs begin to dry up. Even liberal blowhard Alec Baldwin connected the dots between higher taxes and the entertainment industry. Shocking, I know, but if Alec can grasp it, there must be hope.
Meanwhile, I’ll be saving the earth by making sure I don’t watch any Edward Norton movies, either at home or in the theaters. He’ll be proud of my efforts, I’m sure.
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I will be turning all of my lights ON during this hour. Or, perhaps I will rob my dumb neighbors houses, you know, the ones with the lights off.
So what happens when the whole world turns the lights back on and the power systems can't handle the load?
I wonder, does Norton get the same benefits of other US Ambassadors? If he commits a crime during Earth Hour, will he be exempt from arrest? Do we have to call him Ambassador from now on?
I've got an idea. I'll send this lisping twit Norton a photo of the scars on my legs and and an X-ray of the steel pin holding one thigh bone together from my "symbolic gesture" in the South in '64. If he likes what he sees, I'll invite him over to my house to let me work him over a couple of times with a police baton. I'll also rent, at my own expense, a vicious attack dog and a high-pressure hose to apply symbolically to his entire body. He can invite as many of his sweetheart Hollywood punks and bed-buddies as he would like. I'll treat them all equally.
If these guys ever had to walk the walk instead of talking the talk, they'd pee their panties. Their idea of a genuine protest is to show up at a pro-illegal immigration rally, squat on the ground and hope for a camera and a police officer to arrest them for trespass. Then, after the horror of being printed and mug-shot in a private trailer far from the jailhouse, they all skip out happily with their press releases, knowing that a lefty judge will dismiss all charges against them. What moral equivalency fools these globaloney cowards are!
Not only will I turn on all my lights, I'll play the loudest movie I can find on my DVD player while nuking my dinner. Or would it be better to have a pizza delivered?
More ridiculous platitudes from a Hollywood millionaire. Hey Ed, you blew it when you lost Salma, it's all down hill from here buddy.
That's the solution, Pam! Save the Earth by not watching any of the Hollywood know-it-all scientists like Ed Norton and Meryl Streep. Instead, watch these:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/1a4af347eb/eco-c...
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/6d6ad04ce4/eco-c...
Me too. AND, I will have my stereo blaring and the electric tea kettle plugged in for good measure.
Yep. He had Salma, we had Selma. Salma is a whole lot prettier, and Selma was a whole lot more dangerous.
My house will be scary bright during that hour. I am talking Clark Griswold Christmas Vacation, turn up the generators bright. My idiot neighbors will be able to sun tan my off home's glow, and Martian children will glance upon the wonder of light emanating from earth.
Don't forget to open all your windows and turn the air-conditioning on full blast to cool down the global-warmed air outside.
Hey Ed why don't you just shut up and act. Or better yet you want to help the environment? Buy a shotgun, get a hunting liscense and be part of the circle of life PAL!
If these liberal idiots [redundancy] are trying to convince us they are indeed mentally ill they can stop now. I think most of us are convinced.
Liberals know they are cowards to the core as they made perfectly clear after 9/11 but even the liberal needs to fight for something. Their cowardice won’t allow them to fight a real threat like Islamic global terrorism; instead they choose to fight ghosts that they call “climate change/warming/cooling” or Conservatives and Republicans. This is understandable considering the only thing liberals have ever fought for is the closest parking spot to Starbucks.
This is also why liberal cretins routinely demean and insult Christians and Jews while showing nothing but respect towards Islam and Muslims, despite the fact 99% of Muslims condone executing homosexuals. The liberal cretins understand the islamists would cut their throats and burn down their homes while Christians and Jews tolerate liberal derangement. So of course the liberal picks on the safe and easy target.
Moderation sucks.
"Earth Hour"??
Bite me. I'll be hosting a ROCK JAM session in my garage at 8:30pm Saturday night. Rest assured, my lights will be on, probably all through the house, I'll have my Behringer 800-Watt PA cranked up, we'll have our Line-6 and Marshall amps jacked to the 'elevens' and we'll be kicking out American blues and rock so they can hear it in Washington, D.C. Our opening song — "You Can't Always Get What You Want".
Just doing my part to boogie down and destroy the planet at the same time. Cuz that's how I roll.
I am looking forward to the day I can pay tax dollars in the form of cap and trade so that I can breath the air that use to be free. It will be an honor to support world governments with my earned dollars.
I look forward to the day that we have windmills soaring in the sky providing us electricity 4 hours a day taking up most of our heartland. Lets see, it only take 200 square miles of space of windmills to equal one nuclear power plant and times that with the need equivalent of 30 nuclear power plants. This only 6,000 square miles of space.
I look forward to the day that we place solar panels throughout our entire desert space in California, Nevada, and Utah so we may have 8 hours of electricity in the West.
I look forward to the day I can look at all our green friends and ask. Is this the picture of our country that you had in mind when you came up with this idea?
I'm putting up my Christmas lights for Earth Hour and I'll consider renting one of those flood lights you see at movie premiers. Then I’d put a middle finger silhouette on the lens and shine it over the Hollywood Hills.
And he shore has a purdy mouth, don't he? Let's turn him loose in "Deliverance" country, with an I-pod that only plays one tune–"Dueling Banjos."
One of he problems I see is parents not informing their kids of this garbage. She would not fail the assignment were she to write a coherent "smack-down" and back it up with facts. Facts are the left's kryptonite. They can't stand to be in the same room with the truth. If my child were to fail an assignment after completing the spirit of it, I would be all over the school. One could easily instruct a child to include all the pertinant data the teacher is looking for while at the same time blasting the idiocy of the movement. Playing along to get along is one of the reasons public schools are such a joke.
I am a conservative. I am (at least for a little while longer) a Republican. (I'm not real happy about many elected members of my party.) And I am a steward of the earth. I don't waste. I conserve (I thought that was implied in my first sentence.) I remember smog in Southern California so heavy it hurt my lungs to walk home from school. I remember burning rivers. I am tired of being defined as an "earth destroyer" just because I don't bow down at the altar of "politically correct salvation through recycling and fad green stuff."
As an amateur astronomer I'm all for dark skies, but not at the expense of people's safety or their freedom to do what they want in their own yard. At least as long as it doesn't adversely affect me. There are lots of ways to have quality lighting and reasonably dark skies. But that means the enviro-socialists can't take something away from you to "make everybody equal" which is what they really want in the first place.
Turning the lights off for one hour on one day a year is sheer folly and will accomplish nothing. It won't "save" energy. It won't reduce costs. It will only make the enviro-weenies feel better about themselves. So if my neighbors want to buy into this malarky because they'll will feel less guilty for living in the 21st century by turning their lights out for an hour, fine. I'll be dragging my light bucket out to the front yard for some spring time sky viewing.
Edward Norton is gorgeous and a fantastic actor…too bad he has the worst political opinions and ideals.
I'm going to let him have it next week at Fight Club.
Don't forget the t-shirt that says: "Revenuer"
Don't forget the t-shirt that says: "Revenuer"
I suspect that a lot of people who are leaving their lights on during "earth hour" feel the same way. Most conservative abhor waste, including wasting time on hollow gestures intended to send a "message" to congress.
and here all along, I thought Ed Norton worked in the sewers? Now he's espousing Lights out? Gleason would send him to the moon.
and here all along, I thought Ed Norton worked in the sewers? Now he's espousing Lights out? Gleason would send him to the moon.
Official MP3 playlist for Saturday night's festivities:
Trace Adkins – Every light in the house is on
Genesis – Turn it on Again
Snap – The Power
Oasis – She's Electric
Eddy Grant – Electric Avenue
Manfred Mann's Earth Band – Blinded By the Light
Journey – Lights
I am installing extra incandescent bulbs for extra global warming impact!
Think of all the electricity saved if Hollywood and the Music industry just shut down. I mean really, if the Earth is really gonna overheat or something bad because of our electronic way of life, then let's just stop celebrities from doing what they do. No more power for movie theater's, dvd/blu-ray player's, big screen tV's, etc, etc.
Actually I believe Norton already had a moment like that, in the shower scene in "American History X".
I will run my window air conditioner units AND the central heat for that hour.
That has real passion Lawhawk, dig it!
My Stomatepia pindu and Tilapia snyderae will thank me not to be turning off their tank lights heaters and filters especially as the snyderae have a new batch of fry they're escorting around the tank. As both fish are threatened in their native habitats (mine are domestically bred), I'll thank the enviro-weenies to allow me to compromise by dumping the spent tank water on my vegetables and flowers like I always do as I continue to propgate these two threatened species.
And I'll also have every other light in the house on, and both computers, and the TV, and all three space heaters, and anything else I can find that's electric …
this pattern has been around for as long as I can remember…libs only fight things that cannot be defeated (poverty, war, religious& ethnic differences, the sun) because that way, sucess is not winning, but how hard they tried. Have you noticed how often they use the word try. Try means fail. No one uses the word unless they've failed. Think about it. "I tried really, really hard".Don't forget to cry aloud when they say that (Waaah, waaah, waaah!). Instead of trying, people need to just do it. There is no other way to accomplish anything. Remember, whenever you hear "I tried", it always means failure.
you're not an earth destroyer because of your actions. you're an earth destroyer because you refuse to parrot the party line…environment good, people bad, environment good, people bad. Welcome to 1984.
well…I guess there's no accounting for taste. I think he's talentless & ugly as sin…but you're as entitled to your opinion as I am to mine…
Weekly Reader is still around. My First Grader brings it home regularly. Haven't seen "Time for Kids"
More empty symbolism…just like our President.
The amazing thing is that people like Norton actually believe what they're saying. If you try to reason with them and talk about solar (that’s ”sun,” for you liberals) and earth cycles (25 years, 50 years, 1000 years) and the strong possibility that the shifting tectonic plates and deep sea volcanic activity is largely responsible for global warming (oops, "climate change" ), and rising ocean temperatures – all natural processes, they scream FACIST!
I don't know what else you can call them but Pod People! They're possessed by some sort of evil and unseen force.
Either that, or Norton has found a great way to get laid by stupid, bubble- headed bimbos that by into this crap!
LOL
I think all the people in Denver should shut off their electric heaters during the lights out hour, too. I mean if all our activities are causing global warming, the folks in Denver, facing a late March BLIZZARD shouldn't have a problem with an hour of no heat, right? Heaters use a lot more power than lights, so they'll be doing a lot more for the earth by turning off their heaters.
What do you say, Denver?
So, more behavior modification. All of what is going on right now reminds me of the movie "Demolition Man", with BO as the evil Dr. Everything that is "bad" for you becomes illegal, and nanny cams everywhere.
Your opinion is perfectly fine with me! I'll have him all to myself and I won't have to share him with you!
I think he's kind of squirrely.
Oh hell! The lights will be on, cars running, windows open Air/Heat running, toilets flushing, lawn tools running, all appliances on, drag $hit outside and burn it, spell “eat $hit and die,” on my roof with X-mas lights, while my whole family stands on the back deck firing pistols into the night sky, while screaming, come turn my lights you mother f%$#*er. Finally, and to be more specific, “Algore can kiss my entire a$$!”
I'm going to let my hemi truck idle with the head lights on, plug in my camper – run the furnace and the ac with the lights on, start my motorcycle, you guessed it – let it idle and turn all the lights on. I'll probably go steal a car and burn a tank of gas in it too. I'll turn on the furnace in the house, every light. I'll do a load of dishes and laundry – No, I have to do a load prior so I can have both the washer and dryer on. Plus I'll go find some old tires along side of the road to burn for that hour. What a bunch of santimonious hypocrites these people are. They fly off to Park City and Cannes to watch movies and get their pictures taken and be cool. Then fly back, get picked up at the airport by a big limo and go back to their multi-million dollar houses with their heated pools and I'm sure the AC is turned on too. Hey Eddie, stick it. My 3 year old niece has more meat on her bones that ye.
Sorry. no solar panels in the desert…….some turtle gets pissed off and witholds his contribution to the DNC. Tax deductible, natch……
Like in a certain movie or just the way he looks in the above picture? If you're just basing things on the above picture that is not one that does him justice.
shhhh…….don't talk about fight club………shhh!
Tell like it is ToddM! Feels good, Oh yeah.
The only thing to make it better is go out and find a spotted owl to throw on the bbq!
Beside the obvious scientific fallacy of the whole "global warming" movement/religion, the most annoying aspect is that the fawning liberal media promotes any celebrity who's had a marginal hit on stage/screen/CD as if they're experts in the area of global climate research. Despite our best efforts in getting the truth out there, we'll be subjected to "proof" that this overblown and illogical publicity stunt for primative living had any effect other than to make liberals feel good about themselves and assuage their guilt for living in modern society.
Ha. Ha. Loved it. "Earth Hour" is really "Look At Me Hour." No wonder the stars love it.
Brilliant! I'm doing the same, except I am adding my garden tractor ,push lawnmower, snowblower, all three chainsaws,weedwacker, two dirtbikes, and a rototiller. I might even borrow my neighbors tractor for good measure! And as a parting shot to these Liberal Twits I am going to the farm down the street and feeding refried beans to the cows! (Cow Farts Cause Global Warming Don't Ya Know!)
Earth Hour, huh? I didn't know about it. I'm frugal, but on Saturday, you'll be able to see my house from the Spacestation. Thank God we home school and don't have to put up with this kind of enviornmental idiocy as Pam's niece. For now.
At least until the the Generations Invigorating Volunteerism and Education Act” (GIVE act). HR 1388 is signed into law and they force my kids to 'volunteer' at the local indoctrination camp – er – campus. Its already passed the House. http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill...
SEC. 122. NATIONAL SERVICE PROGRAMS ELIGIBLE FOR PROGRAM ASSISTANCE. ‘(a) Required National Service Corps- The recipient of a grant under section 121(a) and each Federal agency operating or supporting a national service program under section 121(b) shall, directly or through grants or subgrants to other entities, carry out or support the following national service corps, as full- or part-time corps, including during the summer months, to address unmet educational, health, veteran, or *environmental needs*.
Its going to be a very long 4 years. Or more.
You are so right about the poor turtles. But you will get the Smart Grid so the Government can monitor your every moment of power consumed, but no FISA. You will get a Government that will have complete control of your medical records, but no FISA. You will get a Government that will tax you for a "Green" environment that it will not deliver. I look forward to our Hope and Change.
Thanks, Stan. I try to look at life with sensible deliberation tempered by a sense of humor. But once in awhile these silly poseur children get to me, and the facade crumbles. We actually laid our bodies down for freedom so that creeps like Norton can call the civil rights movement the same thing as turning off a light switch. These pampered perverts have no sense of proportion or history. They think they've fought the civil rights battle themselves because they call each other "bro." Overnight the homophobic Sean Penn becomes a gay icon because he played one in a movie.
I can only imagine what our military men and women must feel every time one of these sniveling guttersnipes compares recycling to the war on terror. "See? I separated my glass, plastic, paper and food trash. It's just like getting shot at by a bunch of primitive jihadis armed to the teeth, isn't it?
These aren't real people, and they don't fight real wars. But they play parts in "Jarhead," "In the Valley of Elah," "Rendition," and a host of other crap movies and in their fevered imaginations they actually believe they are now entitled to make ridiculous statements on the horrors of war. These lowlives are all post Jimmy Carter, the king of moral equivalencies. They need to develop some morals before they start talking about equivalencies. At least Jimmy Carter experienced firsthand the terror of being attacked by a killer bunny.
I'm absolutely certain that there's already a repeal-the-22nd-Amendment movement underway.
Say, speaking of the movie Rendition, are they going to do a sequel now that preznit karaoke signed an executive order allowing the continuation of renditions?
Oops- sorry, forgot what letter followed the president's name. It's currently a (d), so outrage about renditions, wiretapping, gitmo, etc. are tabled until such time as a president with an (r) after the name is elected again.
In the present case, a little less than 4 years.
I'm thinking about turning on the cars and letting them idle for an hour, while firing up the grill and cooking a plethora of dead animals on it.
I like how you think my friend!
I think the idiots that pull out equivilency arguments about the US and the people the military are fighting should have to go over to Iraq and/or Afghanistan and spend a couple days with the troops. And by spending a couple days with the troops I don't mean getting a briefing from some general or civil affairs officers, walking around the Green Zone to get a photo op with some kid and then leaving; I mean make them walk a patrol or spend some time at a FOB where the bad guys have mortars and aren't afraid to use them. But that'd never happen.
Don't even get me started on the loopy kaffiyah wearing upper class college kids who babble on about the "plight of the Gazans" either, my ideal vacation for them is a lot more detailed and a lot less compassionate.
Edward Norton was at his best in "Death to Smoochy" in my opinion, because I see it as a quasi-autobiographical film.
"The first rule of Fight Club…"
It'd be a more logical use of their resources than some of the things NASA has done lately…
I hear those are good eating deep fried too.
Edward Norton is a fine actor.
Turning too many lights off at once may be the real problem. Remember the cascading power grid failure that blacked out primarily the East Coast? A sudden massive drop in demand could be read by the automatic systems as a surge in the lines, causing automatic shut downs. People may well die, and be without power for hours to days to weeks.
Obama and the MSM will explain how this freak unexplainable occurrence justifies their new smart grid.
Actually, the press is now calling it "renition" so that there is no "d" in it ; )
It sucks, because you're right. One of the absolute best. And there is a story not known in the press about how he saved Courtney Love's kid from future financial distress in a very caring way. But I guess he's such a good actor he can even convince himself of this terrible socialistic nonsense.
It sucks, because you're right. One of the absolute best. And there is a story not known in the press about how he saved Courtney Love's kid from future financial distress in a very caring way. But I guess he's such a good actor he can even convince himself of this terrible socialistic nonsense.
No, but his parking tickets will be paid out of the new carbon tax.
I already had an Earth Week (or two) here in Houston after Hurricane Ike blew through. It's not quite as romantic as they want it to be.
(My place got power back within a few days but lots of places were still without power for awhile after that. Made driving to and from work… interesting sometimes.)
Bwahahaha! Loves it! Salma-Selma. Good show, LH!
Well, I get teased on the interwebs for living in a McMansion, so I already have a power bill that runs around 6-900 dollars a month. I will do my part to burn the 'lectricity by turning on all 8 tvs, 6 computers, 4 stereos, 3 video game systems, run the air/heat on max, (depending on Sats temp), turn on the tanning bed, jacuzzi, hot tub, sauna, oven, microwaves, open all 3 fridge doors, 2 freezers, plug in all small appliances and turn them on, and run the hummer and escalade in driveway. Being as I am a massive consumer, if you can't do this, be guilt free, I will take the bullet for you. Like I said, our bill is already so high, I doubt we will notice. It may make ppl feel good to do this, but realize that the only thing this does, is get them to raise the power bill when people use less of it. You aint doing diddly to help. My hubby says Rush has a great post on this on Thursday's blog, so try to catch it.
Ooohhh forgot the generators for my powerthon! Thanx for the reminder! Anyone else have any other ideas for me? I'm going to do it big.
What's so freaky to me, he looks just like my ex-hubby, the wife abuser, in that pic above. That's reason enough for me to dislike him. (yes, I know that sounds irrational. After you get beaten about the head for awhile, you tend to form weird ideas.)
Can't these people act like normal people and do something that might actually make a difference for a change–like, perhaps, volunteering to clean up a park or highway. Turning off my light for an hour? Are you kidding me? I'm not sure Edward Norton and the others are capable of turning off the spotlights on themselves for 60 seconds.
http://the100mostannoyingthings.blogspot.com/
Somewhere I have my original Weekly Reader with the story about the coming Ice Age, from the early 70's. I also have one all about feminazis, and how great it is that women can do the same jobs as men. It has a pic of a chick on the front, hanging off a power pole. They were breeding us to be those little Code Pinkos back then, and I didn't even know it. I guess cause I remember thinking, "Euwww, who'd want to do that totally gross MAN job?" LOL. I never wanted to be one of the Warrior Womyns.
Not as good as Bald Eagle, or baby seal, but hey, I could do Spotted Owl. What type of seasoning works best on those? Does one serve owl blackened?
I'll bet you guys have a massive baby boom coming up in that area! No power for two weeks? Puleeze! Whole lotta shakin' going on!
Oh God! If Hollywood nit-wits lost their luxurious lifestyle for a moment we’d hear whining 24/7 across the land, bha…wa… their’d be much gnashing of teeth.
AC/DC – High Voltage (in fact anything by AC/DC)
Why just 'Earth Hour'?
If liberals are so passionate about saving the earth, how about an entire day, or week with no or at least 90% reduction in electricity use?
It kinda happened once upon a time in California. They were called 'Rolling blackouts', and the people were really happy how they were 'saving the earth' .
Why just 'Earth Hour'?
If liberals are so passionate about saving the earth, how about an entire day, or week with no or at least 90% reduction in electricity use?
It kinda happened once upon a time in California. They were called 'Rolling blackouts', and the people were really happy how they were 'saving the earth' .
Obama and the MSM will explain how this freak unexplainable occurrence, caused by the Evil George Bush and uncaring rich white Republicans, justifies their new smart grid.
There. Fixed it for ya.
"Norton even compared turning out the lights for an hour to the famous civil rights march in Selma, Alabama in March of 1965"
So I'm racist if I leave my lights on tomorrow? Ed Norton is a moron, just like the character on The Honeymooners, but without the endearing qualities of Art Carney's portrayal.
Too funny, Golani. I really should have taken my sip of coffee before reading your comment. I think I'll turn on my leaf blower and then see about renting a diesel school bus for the day.
I thought it was "Global Climate Change" now – I guess they want to cover all the bases in case this global warming schtick doesn't pan out.
What are they going to do with that volcano up in Alaska? It's currently spewing out more carbon dioxide than all of our cars have since they were invented. Maybe Pelosi/Reid/Obama can propose legislation to outlaw volcanos – they are eeeeviillll !!!
Excellent point.
I feel for your neice. Mine are in Oregon so there's not much I can do about that! LOL Plus, their parents (my sis and her husband) are libtards, so that doesn't help.
Crap! I spelled "niece" wrong. I KNEW I would do that! Grandmother would be so disappointed. (Did I spell THAT wrong, too? LOL)
Although I am not a significant consumer of Hollywood product, I do occasionally enjoy a good movie. My list of unacceptable douche bag 'artists' is growing and I'm afraid will severely limit my viewing choices….Oh Well
Is Earth hour this weekend? They're forcasting 10-12" of snow where I am….Can all y'all turn on your lights, heaters, ovens, stereos, etc now? And leave them on? I'm tired of freezing…
*In his best Frank Oz impression* "There is no try. Do, or do not."
I had a Weekly Reader with an article about Diane Feinstein and Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi; it called them voices of power for the future. I remembered that last night and shuddered.
By then, that Denver Blizzard will be sitting right on top of us. I doubt we'll be turning any of our heat off either.
The lights are going off in Hollywood alright. Thanks to California's inane taxes, stupid fees and overly regulated business environment, all the movie makers are going overseas or up to Canada to work and spend their multi million dollar budgets!
Hollywood should look at history. Before Hollywood, movies were made in New Jersey, near Thomas Edison's studios (He helped to invent movies as well as many other things) and near the acting and writing centers of New York and Philadelphia and the East Coast. When land for studios and filming was available cheap in California, the movie business left for Hollywood, because it was cheaper to do business there.
Today….?
just because yoda is an imaginary character from a movie, that fact does not diminish his message. Movie characters potrayed as wise usually say intelligent things. Try to find an instance of someone using the word try (other than a command) without referring to failure. It's not easy, is it?? Liberals "try" because they cannot do. It is really that simple. And now, they're trying to project their failures onto the rest of us.
Really! I say go for it! Who knows, you may end up losing power, so might as well be extra toasty and comfy in the mean time. This is such a silly bunch of claptrap, actors, (and musicans), embarass themselves, and don't even get it. I saw a few minutes of Alannis Morisette on King while my hubby was channe flipping, and made him stop on the show. Did anyone else see it? Was she totally baked, or what? She seemed, uh, confused. She can speak coherently, I have seen her do it, so this has to be manufactured.
Now that is frightening. I never could figure out why women wanted to be like men when I was a kid. I had two much older sisters. I just wanted to look hot, have hot boyfriends, and go to college. Lol. Feinstein, Boxer and Pelosi together at the same time, enough to make you blow a circuit or two. No need to trun your lights off manually. Boxer looks p'od and constipated 24/7. Either she needs a good shagging, or more fiber. Or both. The brain thing is a complete loss.
Why not do both?
We've currently got about half a foot of Global Warming outside my house right now. All this Global Warming closed down the roads (well, the fact that people are idiots and can't drive in Global Warming did that) so think of how much economic loss we've gotten by this blast of Global Warming Doom!
Gollum was an imaginary character and he got elected president! "Yesssss, my precioussssss AIG bonussssessssss."
He was awesome in Primal Fear. (Then again, maybe he wasn't acting.)
You can't "act" like a normal person. You either are normal, or you're in Hollywood.
"Either she needs a good shagging, or more fiber. Or both. The brain thing is a complete loss."
I'll pitch in in the fiber fund, but I can guarantee you're not going to find any volunteers to help out with that first one.
Personally I'd go with some paprika, chili powder, dried mustard and soy sauce, marinate it overnight and grill it a bit before popping it in the deep fryer, but that's my solution to most culinary quandaries.
Personally I'd go with some paprika, chili powder, dried mustard and soy sauce, marinate it overnight and grill it a bit before popping it in the deep fryer, but that's my solution to most culinary quandaries.
I like the school bus idea! I may have to look into that as well.
Apologies about the coffee though, order yourself some Shamwows on me.
I think it's something designed to get us used to rolling blackouts.
OK, Butler: 'Fess up, you're actually John Edwards aren't you? You're just testing the waters to see if the girlfriend-on-the-side thing has gone away so you can run for President again, huh? I'm not planning on turning off any lights, but I'm not going to turn any extras on, either. I'm off on a different tack. When the idiots here in Sodom by the Bay turn the lights off at the chi-chi restaurants, bars, and movie theaters, I'm going to cut the electrical feed to the buildings.
When they try to turn the lights back on so they can see their $100 plates of beansprouts and their $50 espresso half-caf raspberry lattes with a $20 side of soy milk, they'll find out what it's like when there's REALLY no power. Ditto for the movie theaters where the locals will be watching "Milk" for the sixth time. Unlike the Great New York Blackout, there won't be a huge jump in the birthrate nine months later, and this being San Francisco, I think you can guess why. But there probably will be a big jump in STDs. I'll be back at home, eating a huge steak by candlelight.
Anyone remember the stupid chain e-mail that went around saying, "We're not going to buy gas for one day!" to, you know, stick it to the oil companies (because they supposedly control the prices). This reminds me of that nonsense.
ED: It ain’t easy bein’ green. You wouldn’t like me when I’m green…
Ooh ooh.. I'm going to mow my lawn during the hottest part of the day too!! Take that nanny state!
Ah, you make the mistake that the majority people actually care about this, but I digress.
This is why environmentalism is so popular. In a strange reversal of Christianity, it makes everyone mini-Messiahs. Who would not want to be the savior of the world when all you have to do is turn off your lights for a hour?
Do the limousine liberals come by their ignorance naturally, or do they have to attend 'volunteer' classes to get their thinking correct and dump what they learned before going to the classes?
Is it okay if I just turn off the tv whenever Edward Norton comes on? Seriously, the arrogance of celebrities never ceases to amaze me.
I am Jack's inflated sense of self-importance.
Oh good one!
Maybe Norton needs to remember he's not a special and unique snowflake too.
"We are all part of the same compost heap" was meant to be nihilistic, not a message to start composting.
Ed's trying for a SUGAR grant…
(Shut Up and Go Away Reform)
Well, I'm a conservative who actually likes the concept of Earth Hour for different reasons. I like the night sky. I live in Nashville, and light pollution is horrendous. I particularly like the concept of being able to see the stars really well for an hour. I don't think just because it's touted by some as something good for the environment means that we have to reject and oppose it vehemently. Instead of shoving your conservatism in people's faces, take an hour to go outside and look at the beautiful night sky with at the very least reduced light pollution, you'll be surprised the difference. I'm diametrically opposed to the environmentalist movement, but this could be a great thing for people to realize what we're doing to the night skies. I'm not saying we should all go out and buy light pollution reducing light bulbs or buy blackout curtains, but it's good to be conscious of light pollution, even if for us conservatives. We don't want for our night skies to become a blanket of red haze.
It's his eyes. If you lived near me I would bring you an "equalizer" in the form of a chair leg, just in case this creepy Ed Norton like fellow is not completely out of your life.
I wish I'd have boycotted Norton's last movie 'cause it stunk on ice. Polar Ice Cap ice, and that's some stinky ice!
I kept hearing about Earth Hour and thought it might be something to get in on. Then I visited the website. I've never bought in to the Global Warming or Climate Change ideaology. It's not science; it's a play for money and poltical power.
turn on the klieg lights!!!!!!!!
Dear Eddie,
I have an idea.
Instead of us peons turning our lights off for an hour, how about you and your Hollywood buddies forgo private jets for the remainder of the year?
And, Oh, I hear celluloid is a pollutant, so how about ya'll not making any movies for the next decade. That ought to cool things down a bit.
Well, I was going to do all of the above, but now I think I'll set a tire on fire.
I think I'll set several tires on fire around a traffic camera.
You quoting your girlfriend?
If you need more cows to feed the beans to, let me know, because you can feed mine too! Do the Libtardocrats count belching also? Mine do a whole lot more of that, but, I don't hear them fart very often, and I would know since I have to work closely with them twice a day.
"Euwww, who'd want to do that totally gross MAN job?" LOL. I never wanted to be one of the Warrior Womyns.
I grew up in the 70's too and when people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up I said "A mom". Then they'd say, "No, what JOB do you want to do?" Me: "a MOM" Sure looked like my mom worked hard! LOL I stayed home with my kids for 9 years. Now that they are both in school I am working again. Staying home with the kids was harder work! LOL
OOooohhh! I like your thinking! Really plunge them into the darkness. Excellent.
I can't believe you found out that I was John Edwards! Since I have been thrown under the proverbial bus by my own party, I thought I would scope out the opposition. It seems the Republicans for the most part, have this system by which they forgive you.. Heck, I attended church services at a new local church, and YOU ARE NOT GOING TO BELIEVE THIS!!! They read Bible verses about forgiveness, about how they love the sinner, hate the sin, or some claptrap like that. After the service, I bonded with them, by channeling a dead baby in the mother's womb. They really ate that s#it up! So, here I am, ready for a new chapter of my life, and totally up for some Al Gore bashing!
P.S. My hair looked GREAT while delivering my totally earnest speech.
Oh he is, finally. The funny thing is, athrough our marriage I had a gun, (actually several), but he knew I wouldn't use them on him, and risk going to jail and leaving my children with him. I can, however, think of a few ppl who deserve a good leggin'.
Exactly. I remember in college, those stupid womyns empowerment studies classes. I signed up for one and barely made it through a week. Those were some of the whiniest, self-absorbed chicks I have ever met. They hated men, even though most of them were so ugly they had never dated any, and they had that everyone is against me, wants to slight me, victim outlooks. Two tons o fun, I tell ya!
It does sound as if deep frying is your go to answer for all cooking conundrums. Sounds o.k. to me, being Southern, most things we make could also be called "heart-attack on a plate." Aways good to fry as many things as possible, the grease is good for you, keeps your coat nice and shiny.
Yep, I never met a meal that I couldn't figure out how to deep fry. I'm not from the South though I'm far, far worse in that I'm a card-carrying hillbilly with the twang to prove it. But in general I like how y'all cook down there.
Yeah Lawhawk is going to corner Bread and Electricity in SF, quite the entrepreneur this guy. His earlier terms for a bread franchise was beer. What’s it gonna be for Electricity LH, dig your thinking.
It’s a Southern thang!
Thanks. How quickly they forget. Another poster made a comment about carrying things out in wheelbarrows, not realizing he has to buy the wheelbarrows from me. Haven't figured out the price for electricity yet, but trust me, it will be high. Or I'll be high. Or something like that.
[...] Edward Norton’s Earth Hour Plea Full of Hot Air [...]
PS: Stan, the other poster was a seemingly nice gentleman named Trevor Hilton over at the "Edward Norton's Earth Hour" posts. I gently reminded him that wheelbarrows are not free (he wanted someone to loan him a wheelbarrow–can you imagine such a thing?). The road to hell (and cutting into my profits) is paved with good intentions.
Funny stuff! You’ll be the evil Conservative entrepreneur of SF. Soon franchises will be available from Lawhawk, Inc. prices not negotiable, all sales final! LH, Inc. cuts no slack, a price will be paid!
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