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DST: Still not a Fan…
Everyone talked about the extra hour of sleep they got Sunday morning. Nope. Still woke up at the same time. Then tired all day. This morning was the same thing. I’ll be dragging all week. We really need to end this idiocy…
Granted, Fall is better than Spring when it comes to the DST change, but change is bad. Nope. Nope. Nope. I do not like it…
You can find a couple of my previous DST rants here and here or just search DST in the search bar. Nothing as good as John Oliver did in the video above, but still worth it if you want to laugh at my folly… or with a few of them, maybe even learn something. Ha!
For those of you still fighting a DST Hangover…
Article borrowed from The Pilot News, March 16, 2017
DST – Another Washington Boondoggle
Image borrowed from www.hudsonhorizons.com
So here we are starting another round of Daylight Savings Time Hell. I can walk around the house and move all the clocks forward by an hour, but my internal clock doesn’t reset that easily. I’ll be grumpy in the morning for the next couple of weeks.
In a previous post here, I discuss learning that most countries don’t participate in the DST sham. So why should it surprise me that Washington would jump on the band wagon for this program? It even has a typical, false advertising name like so much Washington legislation. Daylight Savings Time… There are no savings with this… It’s just a compressed version of Robbing Peter To Pay Paul that is a signature of so much that comes out of Washington. Can you say Affordable Care Act? What about the Social Security Lockbox that doesn’t exist to save the money currently being put into the program. Like I said… I’m grumpy…
DST: Marco Rubio for President?
March 13, 2023
Kevin Berger
Commentary, Rants
Community, DST, government, Rants
It’s another grumpy Time Change Monday. I guess on the positive side, I beat the DST Heart Attack spike. (24% on the Monday after the Spring time change.) I think I beat the 8% spike in strokes, but since I’m a bit groggy today, I’m not as confident about that one!
My lurkers know that I’ve written (bitched) about DST here before. My stance against it hasn’t changed. Some of my past posts have exonerated Ben Franklin’s culpability in this, Exonerated Cows in this, shown that DST is not universal and celebrated Marco Rubio’s championing of ending this.
I have read that the Sunshine Protection Act passed the Senate unanimously last year and then stalled in the House. I understand it passed the Senate again this year and is now in the House. If Senator Rubio declared his candidacy for President and promised to ditch the DST time change, he’d rocket to the top of the heap in my estimation. I know, as much as I liked Governor Mitch Daniels, I still curse him for his part in pushing DST for Indiana.
Not much to do at this point, but suck it up and muddle on. It will be better in a week or so. Doesn’t mean I have to like it though…
If you want some history on DST, Accuweather has a nice write up here.
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