For all of you who went without lights. Time for action!

We need to create a new meme. How about sending a burned out light bulb to the white house? With this message on it: “Will the last Republican to squat in this house turn out the lights when you leave?”

Ha Ha! 50 million burned out lightbulbs would make a hell of a sight piled on the white house lawn! One for every person who walked home from Manhatten. One for every family who boiled their water. One for every family who saw or will see a new surcharge on their power bills.

A few years ago in my state, a crime victim’s mother drew attention to crime victim’s compensation legislation by asking voters to mail the governor a shoe. He got so many shoes he didn’t know what to do. And she’s in the state legislature today. We also got a Crime Victim’s Compensation law.

Grassroots activism + monty pythonesque mockery may be just what we need to topple the figurehead in DC.

Anyone with me?

Why restrict this to the white house? I think we should start using all burned out lightbulbs as campaign tools. Write an anti-Bush message on every burned out bulb you have from now on, and leave it somewhere in a public place. Maybe switch your burned out bulb for a new good one!

Just be sure to write something mocking about Bush, blackouts and big business!

but so are blackouts and so is Bush. If the bulbs are left in public places, they will survive long enough to be read!

Imagine a plaza with a fountain filled with burned out bulbs with Bush's name on them! Remind people constantly that a burned out bulb in the white house is no different than a burned out bulb in your house.

Perhaps the lightbulbs should have the same message. One like: ?W

That way they would have a bigger impact. However, I would suggest innundating the media - not the white house. The Administration doesn't pay attention to 10 million anti war demonstrators - 50 million dead bulbs won't do it either ("dim bulbs" will never get the significance and this will only overwork the government mailroom folk and further overwhelm our Attention-challenged Homeland Security and Justice Depts). BUT, the media - think of 50 million light bulbs with ?W on them delivered to CNN or FAUX or even CBS (Dan would certainly mention it).

What's great is that everyone has them, no one wants them, and they are easy to part with. Just like Bush.

Yes, they would work well with ?W on 'em.

I have a lightbulb pencil in my pencil jar. I forgot. I got it when I toured Hanford with a local high school science class. Yes, you can do such a horrid thing. Although these days, I might not pass the security checks.

But associating burned out, dim lightbulbs, blackouts and Bush is a winning combo! EVEN TIES IN WITH pOPPY'S 1000 POINTS OF LIGHT! 1000 points of light fade and go dark.

It is a good idea though. The thing that irks me, and will always irk me is that, while we sat in the dark, and others were told to not turn on the A/C, the lights of Broadway were on. WTF? And the Woodward Dream Cruise here in Detroit continued... Just where are this country's priorities anymore?

looked so eerie! There were lights on the top parts, but not the road. And the bridge abruptly plunged into darkenss. Very dramatic.

I think everyone of us who has been in one of these "rolling" blackouts across the country, then been rewarded with higher $$$ bills by Bush campaign donors should be able to combine our bitterness into one big jolt of power that knocks that dimbulb out his socket and clear back to Crawford where he can blowdry his hair in a bathtub for all I care!

and it ties nicely to Palast's recent "Dim Bulb" article.

"speaking truth to power (grids)" ???

if this gets traction I'd certainly post the info on ?W.

I have been hunting for lightbulb clip art.

I envision lightbulbs that say something like: How many Republicans does it take to unscrew a lightbulb? ???W