Poor Republican

Earth Hour, according to the website, is so “YOU CAN VOTE EARTH BY SWITCHING OFF YOUR LIGHTS FOR ONE HOUR - EARTH HOUR.”  Oh yeah, and don’t forget that after you turn off all  your power-using gear and lights for an hour, spend the next hour erasing all that you “accomplished” by turning on power-sucking computers all over the world so you can post your pictures and videos on Flickr and YouTube.  That makes loads of sense.

What exactly does it mean, “vote Earth?”  I don’t recall seeing Earth on a ballot.  I’ve never seen a poll asking us whether we would rather vote for Joe Smith or Earth.  It’s nonsense.

First, “Earth” is not a person.  It’s not a sentient being, whose feelings can be hurt if we don’t “vote” for it.

Second, to say “vote (for) Earth” is to imply “and vote against” something else.  Like for instance, people?  Technology?  Modern civilization?  In other words, vote Earth, not yourselves.  Or each other.

These EcoNazis want you to vote to shut down everything humans have fought for over thousands of years of invention, research, and development.  All that electricity, electronics, and transportation have brought us, such as worldwide shipment of food and medicine, life-saving medical care, life-saving sanitation in the form of garbage disposal and collection and flush toilets, all would go away if the EcoNazis had their dreams come true.

They want you to “vote Earth” and vote for conditions that helped along such minor inconveniences as the Black Death and the Spanish Flu.  They already got to “vote Earth” instead of things like DDT and genetically hardened crops that grow well in drought conditions, and so millions of poor Africans (the very people they claim to champion) have died from malaria and hunger that never had to.  How about you “vote Earth” and get in line to be next?

All this in the name of the Earth, which will keep right on orbiting the Sun until long after we’re all gone, whether we migrate away in a few hundred years or blow ourselves to ashes in a nuclear war next week.  It won’t care, because it can’t.  And even if it could, it wouldn’t.  It would shrug us off like fleas and the ecosystems would start over.  Then, just maybe in a few million years, the next group of arrogant, nonsensical liberals could hold another Earth Hour.

For this one, I choose to celebrate all that Man has accomplished.

We will turn on every light in the house.  We will run every appliance we can.  We will turn on every computer, television, radio, dvd player, etc.  If it uses power, we will run it for that hour.

We will celebrate Civilization Hour.

The Obama Kool-Aid drinking EcoNazis want you to party like it’s 1099; we will party like it’s 2009.

Because it is.

Enjoy it.

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