So I hear Al Gore couldn't be bothered to turn off any of his lights during "Earth Hour" this weekend.

According to the news story:

Drew Johnson, the president of the Tennessee Center for Policy Research, decided to drive by Gore's mansion in Nashville at 8:48 p.m. and records that floodlights were on illuminating the driveway leading up to the main quarter.

"I pulled up to Al's house, located in the posh Belle Meade section of Nashville, at 8:48 p.m. – right in the middle of Earth Hour," he wrote on his blog. "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."

He added: "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."

I'm sorry - maybe I'm just a dim bulb here - but what the hell is the man who spearheaded the global-warming squawking doing (a) using spotlights to illuminate his house? and (b) using spotlights to illuminate TREES?

This doesn't address the obvious issue of living in a 9000 square foot house to begin with.

And THIS is the guy who ousted Irena Sendler from winning the Nobel Peace Prize????

Meanwhile, during Earth Hour the other night, I looked around and counted three lightbulbs in use in our house - one each in the kitchen, living room, and front room. No, we weren't participating in Earth Hour. For us this is normal.

So who's greener - Al or us?

Grrr.

A friend emailed this story.

There recently was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena.



During WWII, Irena got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto as a plumbing/sewer specialist. She had an ulterior motive. She KNEW what the Nazis' plans were for the Jews (being German). Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack (for larger kids). She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kid/infant noises. During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. She was caught, and the Nazis broke both her legs, arms, and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunited the family. Most of course had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted.

Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was not selected.

Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.

Help pass this around the world, will you?