Tavis Smiley is an alum, and though he's a frat, that ain't saying much.
Posted on 04/29/2005 8:17:19 AM PDT by 4thygipper
I grew up in Indiana where we had a sane time system. I moved to Arizona and have lived there ever since. We don't screw with our clocks here either. I guess I'm running out of places where I would find it acceptable to live. Stupid is breaking out all over the place. Don't change your clocks, change your habits.
Some parts of Indiana switched. Also the Navajo section of AZ switches but technically they're almost a country.
It doesn't have to happen. I have sunlight streaming in my windows at 5 AM, it's no problem makes it easier to wake up in the morning.
Indeed...
Why? Just change your habits, not your clock.
The northern/Gary area and some southeastern portions of the state unofficially observed DST, but there was no state law to support them. This was because they bordered other metropolitan areas which had DST.
We could have sent in the National Guard and forced them back into the Dark Ages, but we secretly envied them ;)
You shouldn't envy people having to change their clocks twice a year. I've lived in both and definitely DST is the stupider more annoying way to live.
While time zones make sense, Daylight Savings Time is stupid. Are we as humans so dumb as to think this accomplishes anything different than if we went to work an hour earlier/later. It does cost business money however to change twice a year.
I will admit, there is one person I know who is firmly convinced that the change to DST makes the ice on Lake Erie melt faster because there is more daylight! It is amazing such people are allowed to operate a voting machine or a car.
I might just squirrel them away in my SS lockbox. (If I could find the thing.)
Why? Farmers work by the sun, not the time.
Tavis Smiley is an alum, and though he's a frat, that ain't saying much.
PS A buddy in Indy tells me that Gov. Mitch wants central time so, we have two months of DST, 8 months as it is now, and for four months it gets dark an hour earlier.
Caramba!
"Hoosier" is the first half of the phrase "hoosier daddy?" I'm sorry. I simply could not resist.
But.....
A Hoya is Latin for "rock"...or so the local story around these parts goes. We understand it was first uttered by a Jesuit priest watching a remarkable goal line stand by the Georgetown University football teams years ago.
OK...not buying that one either, ay? That's quite alright, I'm keeping the day job.
Right on.
I read an article where a lady in NC claimed her garden did so much better with that extra hour of daylight.
You don't have to get up with the sun you know. Blinds and dark curtains let you set your own schedule without expecting everybody else to change their clock. Of course my grandmother got up at 4AM for most of her life, regardless of hte sun.
Evansville and the SW part of the state are, too.
It's a sad day indeed to be a Hoosier. Rep. Troy Woodruff changed his vote to Yes, despite what his constituents wanted. So much for the "Representative" part of his job. I wonder how much money lined his jacket.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.