37 thoughts on “Daylight Saving Time Evil Plot By Liberal Congress To Cause Global Warming”

  1. W – T – F?

    This was a joke I hope. It’s even funnier because at the time this change was passed, Congress was controlled by the Repubicans.

  2. Hasn’t anyone stopped to appreciate the TRUE humor in this letter? It doesn’t matter WHEN Daylight Savings occurs…the Earth gets the exact same amount of sunlight every year no matter WHAT the clocks say! That’s phenominally hysterical.

  3. Isn’t the letter arguing about the public’s perception? Indeed, changing daylight savings may change how hot or cold people think it is.

    I wonder if daily temperature readings are taken on local time, or GMT. :-)

    Still, rather funny as public perception would have no effect on the trees, bugs and snakes.

  4. You fucking morons.

    It’s called satire.

    No wonder America is known as a country full of shitheads. You fucking idiots are a representative collection of them.

  5. This letter is far too poorly written to be remotely considered satirical.

    Furthermore, having a law degree is no guarantee of intelligence. I’ve known several attorneys who I firmly believe would have problems walking and chewing gum at the same time.

    One problem in America is that there is a belief that if a person is good in one area then they are knowledgeable in other areas as well. This is a frequent and incorrect assumption.

  6. I just called the Arkansas Democrat-Gazzette and verified that the article was published. I also called Connie (which is a he) at *phone number removed by editor*. He seemed annoyed and agitated. He would not verify that he had written the letter, and asked that I call back and leave a message.

  7. TF: I found the article funny, and its nice that you have taken an interest in this topic, but I would rather not have this blog be a place that someones personal info (no matter how easy it is to Google it) be displayed, and I certainly do not recommend people call and harass this guy. He may be simple but that doesn’t mean we need to give him a hard time. I have edited your comments to remove the phone numbers and addresses.

  8. I’d put my money on satire. The message is simple – carefully assess the data and consider the implications before passing laws. By comparing the stupidity of linking a hot March with the change in Daylight Savings time, the author is asking us to consider whether the evidence for global warming does indeed support the assertion that warming is directly caused by humanity. For those who don’t understand satire (which by it’s nature is supposed to be subtle) Wikipedia has a good article on the subject:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satire

  9. Magic: You raise a good point.

    On the one hand I would hope that no one is this stupid and that this is a finely crafted bit of satire.

    On the other hand I have met plenty of people in my day that I would expect to think something like this.

    That is why I presented the picture sans opinion (aside from the title which is my attempt at humor)

    If it is satire, its VERY subtle. Either way its hilarious.

  10. Honestly, I’ve read this like 40 times today and I still find it difficult to believe that the author is so ignorant as to think that we somehow created more daytime.
    People like this just frighten me as it demonstrates that there is no real limit to the ignorance a person can display and still process oxygen.

  11. I’m seriously frightened for this country, if this was NOT satire. I am at a loss for words.

  12. actually, due to reasons OTHER than what she stated……the daylight savings time shift actually contributed more to the problem. People just shifted their use to the evening, which is now extended due to more daylight. Because there is more daylight, people use more resources later into the day than they would normally.

  13. DJ: Think for a second what you just wrote, “because there is more daylight” there is the same amount of daylight, you can not change how much daylight hours there are, what daylight savings time does, is shift our clocks (which are completely arbitrary) a couple of hours so that business hours fall more fully within these daylight hours.

    No matter what it is going to get dark at the same time, all we can do is decide what number we want our clocks to show when this moment happens.

  14. In regards to Connie Meskimen’s letter regarding Daylight Savings Time creating warmer days… it’s very refreshing to see that there are still some people in this country who haven’t been brainwashed by “liberal science”.

    It must be nice to live in a state like Arizona, where they don’t observe Daylight Savings Time. They must have it made in the shade. I’m personally considering spending summers there from now on, to have a chance to cool down a bit.

    I got to thinking, though, and came up with an idea. Perhaps the U.S. Congress could set it up so that certain places where people don’t live much (like the dessert) could get even more daylight, and we could place solar energy panels there. The rest of the country could have about 5 minutes less of daylight each day to balance things out, so we wouldn’t have any extra overall warming. Heck, why not have 24 hours of daylight in those small dessert regions of solar energy creation? We’d be off of foreigner’s oil in no time!! There’s really no down-side to this plan that I can think of.

    The new liberal Congress sure talks the talk about saving the environment and reducing dependency on foreign energy imports. Let’s see if they can also walk the walk.

  15. i’m pretty sure as americans we have no fracking clue what satire is. nope, no way, no how. especially not HK (that person obviously doesn’t get satire at all).

    riiiiight.

    no, i highly doubt this was satire. i’ve known a lot of lawyers. my mom used to work for a federal attourney. their idea of satire is a Pope joke on the golf course with minor political implications or some scarily “clever” FWD: passed to them by a long series of other lawyers in their Yahoo mail inboxes. if it was intended as satire, then this guy should keep his day job and not get into comedy or pointed social commentary. i can see some validity, albeit very minor, to the arguments that A. shifiting our peak time energy usage to different hours may have an impact on current energy consumption and that B. this may have been an attempt at creating the perception that it due to global warming it gets warmer “faster” as we enter the months where our planet receives the most sunlight

    BUT

    A. a few weeks of peak time usage change isn’t going to creat so much carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gasses that it would be noticed on even the most complex of scientific data collection models

    AND

    B. as someone else keenly pointed out, our calendar, clocks and well, government itself, are arbitrary concepts based on language that was arbitrarily created and really have no effect on the rising avg. temperature of our atmosphere which is a universal constant even if our descriptions of it are arbitrary.

    no, the solution here is clearly to blame al gore for inventing the internet.

  16. I don’t think the original opinion letter was satire. My friend called the newspaper and Mr. Meskimen, and not even the opinions letter editor there could be made to understand why the comments in Mr. Meskimen’s letter were nonsensical. The editor and Mr. Meskimen were clueless when confronted, even after my friend tried to talk them through some of the logic involved.
    I listen to a lot of right-wing talk radio every day, and I can promise you that there are innumerable people in this country who truly are that ignorant and illogical.

  17. I love reading the highly charged, scientifically incorrect, and politically misinformed rantings of lawyers…

    1. Bush oked the change of DLS in 2005:
    http://webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/b.html

    2. Congress doesn’t dictate the rising of the sun, the rotation of the Earth does. Moving DLS back or forward doesn’t change the length of daylight, rather it changes what time we perceive sunrise (we reset our clocks, we do not move the earth).

    Next time I’m in Arkansas and needs someone to represent me in FantasyLand court, I’ll look her up:

    http://pview.findlaw.com/view/1096575_1

  18. I understand that when those democrats first made us endure Daylight Savings Time, it was extremely hard on chickens. They weren’t sure what time to lay their eggs.

  19. The amount of day light in the day does not change with the day light savings time change. The number of minuets between sunrise and sunset will be exactly the same no matter what time we observe them.
    I really hope this is all satire and we’re not living in a society of morons

  20. Mr. (yes, Mr.) Meskimen obviously gets the last laugh on his severely humour-impaired audience. Somehow, I doubt that he’s actually enjoying it. He’s probably just about suicidal from the realization of how stupid most of the denizens of the internet, currently abuzz with his name, are.

    Here’s something from his keyboard, dated a couple of years ago, that might dispel what can’t possibly be regarded as even reasonable doubts about his intelligence and intentions.

    http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Editorial/48211

    I finally get it. I feel so stupid. Absolutely everyone must have known but me.

    While reading Philip Martin’s column in which he used 12 or 13 hyphens and as many column inches to say that he reads Playboy only for the articles, and only then if the articles are about the erudite, it suddenly came to me: Martin is not a real person. He is a creation of Michael Storey, just like the columns written by the long dead Otus the Head Cat.

    I know, the clues should have been obvious: the run-on hyphenated sentences; the William F. Buckley-size words; the endless prattle about his disdain for conspicuous consumption interspersed with his reports to the readers of his most recent experience with old scotch and fine dining in Paris. The self-indulgent “I know” columns by themselves should have been a dead giveaway. Then it came to me. No newspaper would print the likes of those columns unless they were satirical. So my congratulations to Storey on a hoax well executed. I can stand to read the columns now that I know they aren’t serious. I do wish, however, that he would spend a little less time on the Head Cat column and try to make Phil as interesting as Otus. To borrow a phrase from the fictitious Martin, I know Phil Martin. I don’t know what he wants.

    CONNIE M. MESKIMEN

    “I finally get it. I feel so stupid. Absolutely everyone must have known but me.”

    I imagine a lot of people feel the same way, Connie. Undoubtedly not as many as should, sadly.

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