Daylight Savings Time a Liberal Conspiracy?!!!!!!

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Mizsissy
Mizsissy Member Posts: 371
edited June 2014 in Life After Breast Cancer

Well, we're officially back to the Dark Ages now, dark when you wake up, dark when you come home from work, and the darkness is even earlier out here in Michigan at the left end of the time zone.

This newspaper editorial showed up recently in my email...

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  • juanita63
    juanita63 Member Posts: 171
    edited November 2007

    I hadn't looked at it that way, but it does make sense.  I'm in central Indiana and we never used to switch.

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  • NoH8
    NoH8 Member Posts: 2,726
    edited November 2007

    Ummm...surely this has to be a joke. I don't know what's funnier, the woman  who wrote it or the paper who printed it. I guess maybe they were trying to show the illogical science people who don't believe in global warming use. It was a republican congress that put this into effect and congress doesn't actually have the power to change the amount of daylight we have-- only whether or not we turn the clocks ahead an hour during day light's saving time. It's still going to be amount of daylight and evening hours, the only difference is at what time of the day it is.  This has absolutely nothing to do with global warming-- since the amount of daylight will still be the same. If anyone remembers the energy crisis during in the day time we actually kept daylights savings time for the whole year to conserve energy--at least where I lived.

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  • Bugs
    Bugs Member Posts: 1,719
    edited November 2007
    lmao, thanks for pointing that out.  I would have gone on to believe it was true and not a joke. Tongue out 
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  • Mizsissy
    Mizsissy Member Posts: 371
    edited November 2007

    Well don't be embarrassed.  That newsprint was very hard to read.  My husband scanned it at work and emailed it to me.

    I posted this in tongue in cheek because I thought it was hysterical and I didn't want to give away the joke too soon.  But I can't figure out if that Connie M. is real, or did the Editors create her, or are they BOTH for real?!!!!   I'd love to have seen the responses!!!

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  • mke
    mke Member Posts: 584
    edited November 2007

    Google it.  The author (it's apparently her real name) is a lawyer who likes to pen tongue in cheek letters.  You will see the responses too.

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  • Mizsissy
    Mizsissy Member Posts: 371
    edited November 2007

    Wild!!  I googled the name and found out that it is a lawyer who has a passion for writing very convincing arguments for silly causes..and the guy isn't even a woman.  The editors are getting flack from all over the country for even publishing "her" letter.

    "He can make the most outlandish positions sound utterly sincere. (If he ever gets tired of lawyering, he might consider becoming a syndicated columnist.)"

    I thought the letter was just a little too well written to be as idiotic as it sounded!!!

    DH & I will have fun following Connie Meskimen's future antics!! 

    WinkInnocent  Mizzy

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  • NoH8
    NoH8 Member Posts: 2,726
    edited November 2007

    Too funny--- so do we think the editor published it to prove that people believe silly things or did it go right over his/her head?

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  • Mizsissy
    Mizsissy Member Posts: 371
    edited November 2007

    The Editor knew exactly what he was doing and in fact he's still getting flack from people all over the country, as of yesterday in fact...

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  • NoH8
    NoH8 Member Posts: 2,726
    edited November 2007

    Flack from who? People who don't believe in global warming?

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  • Mizsissy
    Mizsissy Member Posts: 371
    edited November 2007

    Paul Greenberg is a Pulitzer prize winning editor at the Arkansas Gazette and he published the article and has been responding to all the flack.  See his latest.

    He takes issue with the fact that it was published as a joke, which to him seems obvious, and "humorless" people take the article seriously and get angry anyway, especially over the point that a Republican congress that passed the laws about DST.

    Connie Meskemin is the name of a male lawyer in Arkansas, and he has been so deluged with phonecalls over this letter that he has a message on his answering machine stating that if the call is about his Global Warming Theory, the caller should check with his secretary to schedule a paid interview. 

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  • NoH8
    NoH8 Member Posts: 2,726
    edited November 2007

    I guess people are pissed at having been tricked. I think it's a great way to illustrate the point!

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited May 2008
    People should 'lighten' up!   <sorry...I couldn't resist Tongue out>
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