...that this makes them look like a pack of pandering moonbats, reduces their credibility and makes a portion of the population far less likely to use their services, accept their proposals or support them when politicians get around to regulating their goofy butts?

They lost me with the Veteran's Day thing...

Wow. So much sacrifice from these guys. That's much better than giving up all, or even one, of their many private jets.

Well maybe we can get their attention by going to their competition!  These idiots are only doing this because theythink there's money in it.  Just show them that the money goes to those who use their brains and not their emotions when it comes to science!

There's just something hilarious about liberals boasting that their lights are out.

Sure Lefty -- we knew that already. You don't have to make a special event to prove it.

But thanks Google for another pointless sacrifice in a cruel cruel world. And thanks for all the fish too.

Tonights code is "RU A LIGHTS OUT LIBERAL?

Can you imagine having to work at the Godawful Google? I bet you don't mention you're a conservative or a Republican in that bastion of conformity.

Vote 4 change. Vote 4 anything. See Jack & Mr Shy's first campaign ad for the ONLY viable 3rd party candidate.

So Google is going black for one hour, earth hour. How do we know? Well, as google probably hopes, hundreds of millions of computers will be fired up, sucking up otherwise unused energy to visit their homepage.

So let me get this straight. Google advertises their good faith jesture, requiring untold amounts of energy to do so, saying they are "going black" on their homepage. But for anybody who cares, they will have to use untold amounts of energy to witness what Google is doing to save the earth. Can you say paradox?

I think the whole thing is a scam.

Google users in the United States will notice today that we "turned the lights out" on the Google.com homepage as a gesture to raise awareness of a worldwide energy conservation effort called Earth Hour.

Exactly. It is a gesture. No one's pretending that Google is accomplishing anything significant by doing this. They are, indeed, a corporation like any other. But how does participation in an innocuous and well-meaning gesture (turning lights out for a day - oh, the bias!) reveal one's political leanings per se? When Google puts four-leaf clovers in their homepage for St. Patrick's Day, does it mean they're propagandizing for Catholicism? What about their Halloween motif; does it mean they're promoting Druidism?

Your (typical) overreaction to this harmless gesture is nothing short of curmudgeonly. Imagine if a search engine did some small graphical thing to honor US soldiers last week for the 5-year anniversary of the Iraq invasion. Wouldn;t it be absurd of me to say that that site is dmeonstrating its imperialist, pro-war leanings?

As far as I'm concerned, environmentalist concerns are only politicized as leftist because conservatives have constured them as such.

Who can revolt if man has become a simple conglomerate of organs, a person barely free enough to use a remote control to choose his channel? -J. Kristeva

As today is my 44th birthday (darn it) I am going to participate in this completely empty gesture by turning on every light I have between 8 and 9pm, just for the fun of it.  :-)

Who knows? Perhaps I will discover a few burned out bulbs that need replacing.

I wish I had thought to rent one of those huge trailored search-lights, too. Of course, I have been smoking a huge piece of pork since 8:00 this morning, so I guess that will have to do.

Theme for Election '08: I want my mommy!

Looks like it's offical. I was right. Google is loaded with hippie, greenie, progressivists who believe in global warming.

I'm moving to Ask.

Anyone who did not take part in Earth Hour must turn in their Conspicuous Altruism wrist bands and ribbons.

"We are going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."... Karl Marx? Nope, it was Hillary Clinton.

Liberals have been in the dark for a long time now. What's one more hour to them?

I find the entire Google Blackout concept annoying as hell.  I like my screen white, not black.  Already in process of finding comparable search engine.  Amazing how a little thing like this will be enough to make users switch, but that's how the web is.  I think Google has forgotten that they never have been and never will be the only game in town.

When I heard about this "Earth Hour" thing on the way home from visiting my mother, I knew there was only one thing I could do when I got home.  I turned on every single light (porch light and the light over the stove included) in my house.  I also turned on every appliance in the house.  Why?  Because I'm an evil "flat earther" who wants to destroy the earth of course.  Actually, I figured the only thing it would affect would be my electricity bill and it would only affect that by a few cents.  God, liberals are morons.

All of you ecologically conscious, politically correct, morally bankrupt, mentally deficient idiots who buy into all this man-made global warming crap, how about you call your local electricity provider and have your house removed from the power grid?  Then, you can sell your car and walk everywhere, do your laundry in some stream so you don't use all that much water.  Don't use any laundry soap or detergent, though: you don't want to pollute the water supply.  You also need to stop buying produce from the grocery store.  The production, processing, transporting, storing, and display of the produce results in carbon dioxide emissions.  You have to go back to a hunter-gatherer existance.   Oh, that's right: a lot of you fools are also animal rights idiots, so you just have to get out and grub for enough nuts, roots, and berries to supply all your protein and vitamin needs.  But, be careful, you don't want to harvest so much that you cause your food source to die out.

C'mon, you AGW true believers!  It's time for you to excrete or get off the pot.  Turn off your lights for one hour?  Male bovine feces!  Live your faith!  Quit emitting greenhouse gasses, or shut up and leave the rest of us alone.

"A communist is someone who reads Marx.  An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx."  Ronald Reagan

NBers,

The following was sent to me by e-mail:

Hi Noel,

I wanted to post this on the NewsBusters Website, but am not sure how to do so, so I am just writing to you to see if you would like to post in NewsBusters website and raise the proper “awareness”.

I wanted to write you a quick note to talk about the hypocrisy associated with Earth Hour.

I was working this Saturday, when I had to use Google with regards to a search I had to conduct. I noticed that they had moved away from their traditional white background to a back background "as a gesture to raise awareness of a worldwide energy conservation effort called Earth Hour" (a Quote from their website). Being an Electrical Engineer, I happened to wonder if the display of “Black” in LCD Monitors would expend more energy than traditional CRT monitors as the LCD monitors actually have to display the color black by expending energy . To research this a bit further, I search this matter in Google, when I came across an interesting article (link: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=fact-or-fiction-black-is) that happens to recite the following quote by “Google green energy Czar Bill Weihl”: “We applaud the spirit of the idea, but our own analysis as well as that of others shows that making the Google homepage black will not reduce energy consumption … To the contrary, on flat-panel monitors (already estimated to be 75 percent of the market), displaying black may actually increase energy usage”

So, if Google’s position in late 2007, which they say is based on “analysis”, is that black will not reduce consumption, but would in fact “increase energy usage”, is it not a hypocritical gesture by Google to actually use an all-black background “to raise awareness of a worldwide energy conservation effort”, when their little “awareness” stunt is actually going to increase energy usage by their own admission? Good job Google for raising awareness during Earth Hour by raising energy consumption.

Best regards,

Ram Soundararajan

Thanks, Ram.  ns 

Google goes over to the ~DARK SIDE~
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Yahoo, search.com & others are just fine. Even if google is a drop better, why support such people?