Curfew ordered on Christmas lights

[AaronsStaff]

"Can Al Gore Save Christmas?"

By Bill O’Reilly for BillOReilly.com
Thursday, December 20, 2007

Here’s a Christmas story that may make you cry, but not for sentimental reasons. The town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, population 7,000, has ordered a curfew on “holiday” lights this season because of Global Warming.

By a vote of 4 to 0, the Barrington selectmen have decreed that all decorative lights must be shut off by 10pm. Selectman Ronald Dlugosz opining: "I hate to be Scrooge here, but we’re really doing a lot in this community to be fuel efficient, to reduce our carbon footprint."

Swell. Since a cow belching does more damage to the environment than a string of Christmas lights (sorry, holiday lights), it is inconceivable that these loons are trotting a “carbon footprint” argument to help the environment. The real strategy here is to diminish the public display of Christmas in that secular town.

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I just read this story in the NY post a few minutes ago, and it drove me crazy. This is obviously just a new excuse to ban Christmas, If my town did this, (which I would not be surprised at) I would protest this by leaving my lights up.

 

[Sr_Sally]

Personally, I don’t have a problem with asking pople to turn off their lights at a reasonable hour (10pm may be a tad early, but 11 would be fine with me). Not because of global warming, but because it is such a pain to have the neighbor’s 7billion watt display blinking and shining in the window at night!

Actually my next door neighbors do turn their’s off, but the neighbor a couple of houses down left the giant, inflatable Santa light up all night long!

And finally, not all display are actual “Christmas lights”. Many off them do seem to be exactly the dreaded, materialistic “Holiday lights” since the entire display focuses on Santa “landing pads” and penguins and polar bears.

 

[AaronsStaff]

Personally, I don’t have a problem with asking pople to turn off their lights at a reasonable hour (10pm may be a tad early, but 11 would be fine with me). Not because of global warming, but because it is such a pain to have the neighbor’s 7billion watt display blinking and shining in the window at night!

Actually my next door neighbors do turn their’s off, but the neighbor a couple of houses down left the giant, inflatable Santa light up all night long!

And finally, not all display are actual “Christmas lights”. Many off them do seem to be exactly the dreaded, materialistic “Holiday lights” since the entire display focuses on Santa “landing pads” and penguins and polar bears.

I can see where you’re coming from, but I dont see your reasonable position/intent in the people who passed this legislation, I see a plan to minimize the Christmas spirit, by FORCING people to turn their lights off.

 

[Sr_Sally]

I can see where you’re coming from, but I dont see your reasonable position/intent in the people who passed this legislation, I see a plan to minimize the Christmas spirit, by FORCING people to turn their lights off.

You’re right. I was just taking an opportunity to vent.

 

[Joe_Kelley]

Will the same restrictions apply year round to advertising lights? It would seem a good time to have a couple of law suits using creative definitions of decorative. Maybe we should learn from the ACLU and make the litigation too expensive for such governments.

 

[PatienceAndLove]

Will the same restrictions apply year round to advertising lights? It would seem a good time to have a couple of law suits using creative definitions of decorative. Maybe we should learn from the ACLU and make the litigation too expensive for such governments.

Ooooooooo, good idea!

 

[MiddleBear]

Curfew is ordered on holiday lights. Well, I have Christmas lights, not holiday lights, and they are on a photo-cell, on at dusk, off at dawn.

Merry Christmas

 

[Filius99993]

Well, a lot of people do go overboard with Christmas tree lights (I’m sorry, but I DO NOT like Bill O’Reilly or FOX News.) They are wasteful…

 

[Linda_Marie]

Should Las Vegas be worried?

 

[Joe_Kelley]

Just think how much more warming would be prevented by putting a 10pm curfew on televisions - year round.

 

[KathleenElsie]

You’re right. I was just taking an opportunity to vent.

My mother had an OLD house in the city. The only thing that that separated her from the house next door was the walkway. The people had over 15,000+ lights and some of their displays sang and played music 24/7 for 8 years. Each year it got bigger and bigger. This went on from the week prior to Thanksgiving to New Years Day. No one on the street got any sleep. Now reasonable would have been no music and turn off the lights at 11 pm. IMHO 2 hours a day would have been enough.

The other end of this situation was they were on public assistance and their utility bill was covered by public assistance. No one else in the neighborhood could afford the electric bill to light up the neighborhood.

 

[AaronsStaff]

Well, a lot of people do go overboard with Christmas tree lights (I’m sorry, but I DO NOT like Bill O’Reilly or FOX News.) They are wasteful…

HOW can you not like Bill O’reilly and Fox News!?!? Bill is Superman, and Foxnews is the Justice League. I love that network because I cant stand the secular progressive talking points coming out of cnn and nbc.

 

[Filius99993]

HOW can you not like Bill O’reilly and Fox News!?!? Bill is Superman, and Foxnews is the Justice League. I love that network because I cant stand the secular progressive talking points coming out of cnn and nbc.

Well, not everything that Liberals do is necessarily terrible. Maybe their laws on abortion and sexual stuff and euthanasia are, but Conservatism has its bad side too, you know. Every news network mucks up information, you know. Besides, watching NBC is a good way to test your faith. (A friend of mine says she swears she saw O 'Reilly hid on Ann Coulter when she was on. That’s REALLY annoying.)

 

[AaronsStaff]

Well, not everything that Liberals do is necessarily terrible. Maybe their laws on abortion and sexual stuff and euthanasia are, but Conservatism has its bad side too, you know. Every news network mucks up information, you know. Besides, watching NBC is a good way to test your faith. (A friend of mine says she swears she saw O 'Reilly hid on Ann Coulter when she was on. That’s REALLY annoying.)

If that were true which I strongly doubt, the leftist media would turn it into the biggest scandal of the year. The liberal media hates O’reilly, they attack him illegititmately all the time, and they are starving for a chance at a legitmate attack. So if this were true, it would be on every news station.

 

[Filius99993]

If that were true which I strongly doubt, the leftist media would turn it into the biggest scandal of the year. The liberal media hates O’reilly, they attack him illegititmately all the time, and they are starving for a chance at a legitmate attack. So if this were true, it would be on every news station.

Maybe the liberal media doesn’t watch O’Reilly all the time.(That’d make sense to me…) She was only watching it because her dad had it on.

 

[whatevergirl]

"Can Al Gore Save Christmas?"

By Bill O’Reilly for BillOReilly.com
Thursday, December 20, 2007

Here’s a Christmas story that may make you cry, but not for sentimental reasons. The town of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, population 7,000, has ordered a curfew on “holiday” lights this season because of Global Warming.

By a vote of 4 to 0, the Barrington selectmen have decreed that all decorative lights must be shut off by 10pm. Selectman Ronald Dlugosz opining: "I hate to be Scrooge here, but we’re really doing a lot in this community to be fuel efficient, to reduce our carbon footprint."

Swell. Since a cow belching does more damage to the environment than a string of Christmas lights (sorry, holiday lights), it is inconceivable that these loons are trotting a “carbon footprint” argument to help the environment. The real strategy here is to diminish the public display of Christmas in that secular town.

…

billoreilly.com/newslettercolumn;jsessionid=BA4072EAC1C25A7D36F07F52C25E4C24?pid=22497

I just read this story in the NY post a few minutes ago, and it drove me crazy. This is obviously just a new excuse to ban Christmas, If my town did this, (which I would not be surprised at) I would protest this by leaving my lights up.

There is something to be said about not running one’s Christmas lights or any lights more than you need to…carbon emissions–even plugged in appliances–can be decreased if we all just do a little more to be cognizant of our environment.

My husband watches O’Reilly. I can take or leave that show. I think O’Reilly makes valid points, but he comes across in such a negative way at times, that his message is blinded by his lack of charity to his audience. Hannity does a better job with that, I think.

All this being said–taking care of our planet shouldn’t be a government agenda. I fail to see why the democratic party claims this as their own idea, and republicans by and large seem to fight against the whole global warming ‘agenda’ as if there is no merit to it at all. I vote repub. and I believe in global warming. I think we can all do our part to conserve energy–when did being concerned for our planet become a democratic ideal?