Daylight Savings Time, a useless construct that doesn’t actually save any energy, is something I always believed was pushed by islamist moles within government. The extra daylight allows them to minimize work schedule conflicts with having to be at home before sundown at certain times of the year.
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God, you're a stupid crotch. They had year-round daylight time during WW II and for a couple of years after, and uniform daylight time was passed for the country in 1967, which is why Florida, really too far south for it to be relevant, has it now. In both those eras, the Muslim presence in this country was minuscule, and it's still not high. It did, however, enable mostly white men to play after-dinner golf, while their mostly Christian wives and children went to vesper services.
a useless construct that doesn’t actually save any energy
One of my "friends" on Facebook (actually a buddy from teenage years) is a hook-line-and-sinker Tea Party supporter. A by-the-book Republican right wing outsider. A WASP from the South. He was a Cruz lover, now he loves Trump, full tilt.
Last Fall he was bitching about Obama "forcing" DST to end in November, saying it should be extended for much longer and that the DEMONcrats were ruining his life on purpose by cutting the evenings short.
Can't these people make up their minds?
"I always believed was pushed by islamist moles within government."
*decides it's got to be 4/20 somewhere in the world* *puff* *puff* *waits a bit*
Nope. This is still moronic.
"!ATTENTION EVERYONE!
Ha, ha, ha, no it's not actual funny at all.
And your all caps hurts my eyes, please stop.
I didn't realize that New Zealand was an Islamic state.
Some history behind DST.
During his time as an American envoy to France, Benjamin Franklin, publisher of the old English proverb, "Early to bed, and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise", anonymously published a letter suggesting that Parisians economize on candles by rising earlier to use morning sunlight. This 1784 satire proposed taxing shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells and firing cannons at sunrise. Despite common misconception, Franklin did not actually propose DST; 18th-century Europe did not even keep precise schedules. However, this soon changed as rail and communication networks came to require a standardization of time unknown in Franklin's day.
Modern DST was first proposed by the New Zealand entomologist George Vernon Hudson in 1895. William Willett, a London building contractor, independently invented DST and pitched it to the British Parliament in 1907. In that same year Willett spoke with John Anderson, who was on a business trip in Britain, and explained to him the benefits of adopting DST and its economic benefits. Germany and its allies were the first European countries to adopt DST in 1916, followed quickly by the United Kingdom and many other western European countries, all in an effort to save fuel during World War I.
@ Miles Gloriosus
You're just figuring that out now?
Witch hunts, trying to inject Christianity into as much of the American identity as possible, jingoisms and attempts to divvy up the globe into adversarial philosophical camps with as wide a brush as possible... the Red Scare didn't actually end, it was just on hiatus while a replacement scarecrow was found.
People like fruser1 thinks that islamists are like the 'uglies' in They Live, don't they?
They are everywhere, hypnotizing us into not seeing them for what they are. Some of Us even join up with them! Most just sell out right away.
It's only the fruser1's of the world who knows what's really going on AND are willing to fight against it!
Why should it save energy? It only gives us more light hours in the evening when most of us are not working.
Why do Islamist moles need to be back before sundown?
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Blue - DST used
I think that what this idiot is trying to say is that the daylight saving started in the seventies due to the energetic crisis because of the problems of the then oil producers, who happened to be Islamic. Which is idiotic, since it actually made us less dependent on their petrol and they use a different calendar
I think we should do away with DST because I find it completely ridiculous to keep changing all the clocks in my house twice a year. Plus it doesn't make sense to have it darker one hour earlier in the winter when days are already short, so I say put it on DST and leave it. Of course then in the summer we don't have the sun going down until 9 PM, so it's hard to get the kids into bed.
@Miles Gloriosus
Why do I get the feeling that this idiot thinks everything is an Islamist plot? I swear, it's like the Red Scare all over again.
It's because we don't have the commies around to be afraid of any more. I guarantee that 40 years ago someone suggested that DST was a commie plot.
DST is stupid, yes. But it's not an Islamist plot, because, for one thing, Islam runs on the lunar calendar.
I'm with Doubting Thomas. I don't like DST as is, and the way its set up seems to defeat the supposed purpose. DST is in the summertime half of the year, when sunlight isn't exactly a scarce commodity, but yet we go back to normal time right before the darkest month of the calendar?
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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