Lights on but nobody’s home
I pulled up to Al’s house, located in the posh Belle Meade section of Nashville, at 8:48pm – right in the middle of Earth Hour. I found that the main spotlights that usually illuminate his 9,000 square foot mansion were dark, but several of the lights inside the house were on.
In fact, most of the windows were lit by the familiar blue-ish hue indicating that floor lamps and ceiling fixtures were off, but TV screens and computer monitors were hard at work. (In other words, his house looked the way most houses look about 1:45am when their inhabitants are distractedly watching “Cheaters” or “Chelsea Lately” reruns.)
The kicker, though, were the dozen or so floodlights grandly highlighting several trees and illuminating the driveway entrance of Gore’s mansion.
I [kid] you not, my friends, the savior of the environment couldn’t be bothered to turn off the gaudy lights that show off his goofy trees.
Wow. Just wow.
March 30th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Al Gore releases vehement denial
Drew Johnson insists there is proof.
For the record, I didn’t turn anything off during earth hour myself, and of course that doesn’t mean anything more important than I don’t have a preference for displays of that nature.
March 30th, 2009 at 2:44 pm
Rather than celebrating an hour out of the 4.5 BILLION YEARS of earth’s existence, I decided not to waste the hour. After all, we have only about 10 BILLION YEARS before the sun expands and the earth has a real global warming problem.
March 30th, 2009 at 3:52 pm
My wife and I were going somewhere about 10 minutes into earth hour, and the local “adult alternative” station announced that they were “proud to be participating in earth hour by only playing acoustic versions.”
And they were serious.
March 30th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
I was hosting a party with 25 or so friends. Every light in and out of our house was on. The party even included my wife giving me a new Springfield rifle as a gift. So I awarded myself bonus points for ticking off the global warmers and the anti-gun crowd.
btw: Is there anything better than getting a gun that has a “Not legal in California” sticker? I love that.
March 30th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
You’ve got it all wrong Unc. See, the computers were on so he can monitor his carbon cap n’ trade transactions and the trees offset the carbon that the lights used. He’s totally in the black.
/roflmao
March 30th, 2009 at 6:22 pm
“Al Gore is his own parody”
What’s your point?