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2012-04-01 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by tu3031 2012-04-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 That pic of NK is funny but also a warning - the watermelons would be very happy to do that (or worse) to all of us.

Posted by PBMcL 2012-04-01 00:22|| 2012-04-01 00:22|| Front Page Top

#2 Courtesy of What's Up With That?, a dissenting view many here will appreciate. A taste:

"Earth Hour: A Dissent
by Ross McKitrick

In 2009 I was asked by a journalist for my thoughts on the importance of Earth Hour.

Here is my response.

I abhor Earth Hour. Abundant, cheap electricity has been the greatest source of human liberation in the 20th century. Every material social advance in the 20th century depended on the proliferation of inexpensive and reliable electricity.

Giving women the freedom to work outside the home depended on the availability of electrical appliances that free up time from domestic chores. Getting children out of menial labour and into schools depended on the same thing, as well as the ability to provide safe indoor lighting for reading."

There's lots more - RTWT at WUWT. (I don't have a link for the original source.)

Posted by Barbara 2012-04-01 02:27|| 2012-04-01 02:27|| Front Page Top

#3 And it just happens to coincide with the Pagan festival of Oestara when various cults of dirt-worshipers traditionaly use candles and crystals to enhance their spring fornication activities. What are the odds?

Posted by DepotGuy 2012-04-01 10:01|| 2012-04-01 10:01|| Front Page Top

#4 Anybody tell Todd that with only 5 states participating, that's what, something like 10%, unless you use Bambi's map???
that is not a real landslide of support there, buckwheat.

Posted by USN, Ret. 2012-04-01 17:42|| 2012-04-01 17:42|| Front Page Top

#5 These symbolic activities are just so much crap. You can do some serious lowering of electricity use without being candleheads. But it takes rational thinking with some technical background to put your effort where it will count. Those of us know it do it now without some goofy 1 hour bruhahahahahahaha.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2012-04-01 19:42|| 2012-04-01 19:42|| Front Page Top

#6 The WWF and their enablers need to cough up every dollar theyve ever extorted from the US Treasury and then be scourged and flogged back to the Dark Ages with no 0bama-care/ DOJ getoutofjailfree commie-chits. And, no Right of Return to civilized modernity.
Last night at our home, we turned on anything and everything that uses electricity; including the stove burners, clothes dryer, hair dryers all the device chargers, etc., and let em all cook for one guilt-free hour.
Well let the guilt-ridden progressives take on our non-existent eco-guilt (small e) Enjoy!
This "One's for You..."

The WWF and their enablers need to cough up every dollar theyve ever extorted from the US Treasury and then be scourged and flogged back to the Dark Ages with no 0bama-care/ DOJ getoutofjailfree commie-chits. And, no Right of Return to civilized modernity.
Last night at our home, we turned on anything and everything that uses electricity; including the stove burners, clothes dryer, hair dryers all the device chargers, etc., and let em all cook for one guilt-free hour.
Well let the guilt-ridden progressives take on our non-existent eco-guilt (small e) Enjoy!
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"In A Yugo" By: Paul Shanklin c/o El Rushbo

(Parody of In The Ghetto by Elvis Presley)

As the snow flies...

At a used car lot on the edge of town
A liberal guy and a liberal gal
Buy a Yugo
And they drive with pride

'cause if there's one thing that this world needs
It's environmental friends who'll take the lead
In a Yugo

They say, "People don't you understand?
Those Suburbans are ruining the land!"
But they'll wish they had a full-size van one day

They're pointing fingers at you and me
They say we're too blind to see
But do we simply use our heads
And choose a better way
As those small wheels turn

Fifty miles to the gallon and their knees on their chests
We're gonna save enough gas for all the rest
In a Yugo
Then one day on the interstate
They suddenly lose control
They swerve to miss a baby duck
And are squashed beneath a produce truck
But they drove with pride

And as the crowds drive past the little flat car
You know they saved a lot of gas but they didn't get far
In a Yugo
And as they're trapped inside

At a used car lot on the other side of town
A liberal guy and a liberal gal
Buy a Yugo
And they drive with pride...(tsk-tsk. Sniff.

Posted by canalzone 2012-04-01 22:19|| 2012-04-01 22:19|| Front Page Top

#7 My Bad. Here's the Oscar Award nominee (Read Loser)for Best Musical Score for A Spoofed/Punked Lyrical Parody:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz2eCFoafXk

Posted by canalzone 2012-04-01 22:36|| 2012-04-01 22:36|| Front Page Top

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