Sunday, November 2, 2008
Additions and Corrections
Thank you Amy for offering some corrections. I know this is still incomplete as the information was from about 1980. If you are interested, contact me, and I will make you a contributor or fellow author, and you can post on the blog yourself. If you aren't comfortable doing that, you can email me changes to your family group sheet or even postings you want, and I can add it for you. I want this to be a spot where you can post calendar items, pictures of the family, news announcements, articles or whatever your heart desires.
Daylight Savings Time
At this election time, everyone clamors about less government intervention, they talk about it, they extol it’s virtue’s, but at the same time, the government seems to get more involved, get larger year-by-year. The deficit grows. There seems to be no end to government intervention.
I propose that it is our right to demand less government intervention. And I have just the cause that I wish to enlist your support. That is when we should turn back our clocks ending Daylight Savings Time.
Our government proposes that we abide by daylight savings time, which I don’t have a problem with. My problem is that they insist that our clocks be turned back at 2:00 am on the first Sunday of November. What gives them the right to insist that we get out of bed at 2:00 am on a Sunday. Who wants to set their alarm for 2:00 am, then go through the house and switch all the clocks back to 1:00 am, only to have the alarm again ring at 2:00 am and each of us have to repeat that dreadful hour of lost sleep?
Now I realize there is already a groundswell of support to take this right away from the government. The radio DJ’s all tell us to change our clocks before we go to bed. Like who drives 55 miles per hour in a 55 mile per hour zone? Who hasn’t crossed a street in the middle where there is no cross walk? Civil Disobedience has already driven each of us to change our clocks when we want to. But who gives DJ’s the right to tell us which hour to repeat in our lives. Why can’t we decide for ourselves?
For example. I propose sitting down to a wonderful dinner at 6:00 pm, at 7:00 pm, change back my clock and repeat the process.
Why would anyone that work’s the night shift want to have to repeat the hour? Wouldn’t they insist on changing their clocks either before or after their shift ends?
The losing football team, should be able to insist on changing back the clock and repeating the hour with the hopes of improving their lot in life. What trick-or-treater wouldn’t change the clock right in the middle of the candy-gathering festivities to increase their take? What young man, in the middle of a hot date, wouldn’t change back the clock to increase the time he gets with his beau? Sure it would cause some confusion, but why do we let the government tell us when to do it, and especially have it done in the middle of the night?
And don’t even get me started on the start of Daylight Savings time! To tell All American’s that they must lose an hours sleep seems totally Un-American. While the Constitution and Declaration of Independence are completely silent on the subject, you tell me which seems more in keeping with our individual pursuit of happiness stated in the Declaration of Independence? Losing an hours sleep so that one can make it to the Chemistry test on time? Or sleeping in that hour, and changing the clock at the precise moment the Chemistry test was to begin, losing that hour of your life forever.
Join with me in the cause. Get the government out of the business of telling us when to switch our clocks. This may just be a small step at reducing government intervention, however, most major revolutions start small. Until then, I hope everyone remembered to set their alarms at 2:00 this morning and changed their clocks back!
I propose that it is our right to demand less government intervention. And I have just the cause that I wish to enlist your support. That is when we should turn back our clocks ending Daylight Savings Time.
Our government proposes that we abide by daylight savings time, which I don’t have a problem with. My problem is that they insist that our clocks be turned back at 2:00 am on the first Sunday of November. What gives them the right to insist that we get out of bed at 2:00 am on a Sunday. Who wants to set their alarm for 2:00 am, then go through the house and switch all the clocks back to 1:00 am, only to have the alarm again ring at 2:00 am and each of us have to repeat that dreadful hour of lost sleep?
Now I realize there is already a groundswell of support to take this right away from the government. The radio DJ’s all tell us to change our clocks before we go to bed. Like who drives 55 miles per hour in a 55 mile per hour zone? Who hasn’t crossed a street in the middle where there is no cross walk? Civil Disobedience has already driven each of us to change our clocks when we want to. But who gives DJ’s the right to tell us which hour to repeat in our lives. Why can’t we decide for ourselves?
For example. I propose sitting down to a wonderful dinner at 6:00 pm, at 7:00 pm, change back my clock and repeat the process.
Why would anyone that work’s the night shift want to have to repeat the hour? Wouldn’t they insist on changing their clocks either before or after their shift ends?
The losing football team, should be able to insist on changing back the clock and repeating the hour with the hopes of improving their lot in life. What trick-or-treater wouldn’t change the clock right in the middle of the candy-gathering festivities to increase their take? What young man, in the middle of a hot date, wouldn’t change back the clock to increase the time he gets with his beau? Sure it would cause some confusion, but why do we let the government tell us when to do it, and especially have it done in the middle of the night?
And don’t even get me started on the start of Daylight Savings time! To tell All American’s that they must lose an hours sleep seems totally Un-American. While the Constitution and Declaration of Independence are completely silent on the subject, you tell me which seems more in keeping with our individual pursuit of happiness stated in the Declaration of Independence? Losing an hours sleep so that one can make it to the Chemistry test on time? Or sleeping in that hour, and changing the clock at the precise moment the Chemistry test was to begin, losing that hour of your life forever.
Join with me in the cause. Get the government out of the business of telling us when to switch our clocks. This may just be a small step at reducing government intervention, however, most major revolutions start small. Until then, I hope everyone remembered to set their alarms at 2:00 this morning and changed their clocks back!
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